Smuggler Gets 30 Years for San Antonio Truck Deaths

Published on Honduras Daily · Oct 21, 2026 · Originally reported October 20, 2026 by El Heraldo

A Guatemalan human smuggler was sentenced to 30 years in U.S. prison for organizing the 2022 transport of 53 migrants—among them six Hondurans—who suffocated in an unventilated truck in San Antonio, Texas.

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