Feds: Harlingen women agreed to smuggle immigrants



By Sergio Chapa
Wednesday, September 02, 2009 at 6:31 p.m.

Two Harlingen women are behind bars after they allegedly agreed to try to get two illegal immigrants through the Sarita checkpoint.

U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Melissa Medrano and Kassandra Nicole Puga on human smuggling charges on Saturday.

Court records show that the two drove up to the Sarita Border Patrol Checkpoint with two passengers.

Border Patrol agents determined that the two passengers were illegal immigrants.

The two women allegedly told agents that they had agreed to take the immigrants to Houston.

The two said a man named “Joshua Castilloâ€