Thread: TX: City employee charged with immigrant smuggling

City employee charged with immigrant smuggling

By JOSÉ BORJÓN/The Brownsville Herald
December 21, 2007 - 10:51PM
Jose Luis Espericueta, facilities supervisor for the Brownsville Urban System, was arrested Dec. 14 at the U.S. Border Patrol Checkpoint in Falfurrias on charges of transporting undocumented immigrants.

Espericueta, 54, was charged with one count of bringing in and harboring aliens, according to federal court documents. Sergio Andrade-Morales told Border Patrol agents he was a U.S. citizen while he was a passenger in Espericueta’s Lincoln Town Car, court documents show.

In secondary inspection, Andrade-Morales showed the agents a Texas driver’s license, which was determined not to be his. He then admitted he was from Mexico. Micelsy Yolanda Perez-Mendoza was a backseat passenger in Espericueta’s Lincoln; she claimed to be a U.S. citizen and then admitted she was from Honduras.

Espericueta told Border Patrol agents that he contacted his ex-wife in Mexico to ask her if he could borrow money for hospital expenses. He told agents that “she offered to pay him $1,500 to transport two individuals to Houston,â€

I wonder if this was just a case of pure greed or if this man was actually working with and for LaRaza or the Mexican government?

I'm covinced they have been putting people in place in governments, local and federal to do their bidding.

It was unclear Friday afternoon if Espericueta remained employed with the city during his 37-month prison term or if he resigned and was hired again upon his release.


Wonder if he was getting paid while in prison? Something strange - maybe someone wanted him in that position.