EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Two undocumented migrants were arrested on Monday, July 13 as a result of a stash house being disrupted in El Paso, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas said.

A criminal complaint alleges U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Ysleta Border Patrol Station observed Jorge Lucero-Banda, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, and Diogenes Silva-Orozco, an undocumented migrant from Nicaragua, depart and later return to an apartment that had been under investigation for human smuggling activities, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

A search of Silva-Orozco’s cell phone allegedly revealed numerous videos and photos depicting immigrants inside a separate residence where agents later encountered 14 undocumented migrants. The complaint alleges Lucero-Banda served as a caretaker at the stash house and was paid $1,000 per week. Lucero-Banda and Silva-Orozco are charged with bringing in and harboring migrants, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

This was among 234 new immigration and immigration-related criminal cases filed by the federal prosecutors in the Western District of Texas from July 10-16.

Charges were brought against human smugglers and undocumented migrants with past convictions for numerous DWIs, violent crimes, thefts, and multiple prior removals, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Among the other new cases, Jorge Camacho-Olivas, an undocumented migrant from Mexico who has been previously deported eight times, allegedly attempted to enter the U.S. on Tuesday, July 14, by eluding inspection from U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry. A criminal complaint alleges that the day after his most recent removal, CBP officers observed Camacho-Olivas moving on foot alongside a truck that was driving up to an inspection booth. He was then detained. Camacho-Olivas has a 15-year history of multiple illegal re-entry convictions and one conviction for human smuggling, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Antonio Gomez-Raygoza, also an undocumented migrant from Mexico, was arrested after he allegedly presented a copy of his Mexican voters registration card to a CBP officer at the Paso Del Norte POE and claimed to be a U.S. citizen. A system query on his name revealed Gomez-Raygoza has been removed from the U.S. six times and has been convicted for illegal re-entry, auto theft and first-degree burglary, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

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