EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A U.S. citizen has been arrested and has been charged with smuggling migrants and a stash house in El Paso was disrupted in separate new immigration cases, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.

These are examples of 235 new immigration and immigration-related criminal cases from Aug. 14-20, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Charges were brought against several alleged migrant smugglers and migrants with past convictions for numerous DWIs, violent crimes, thefts, and multiple prior removals.

Here is a look at a trio of cases with El Paso or Borderland ties.

Among the new cases, U.S. citizen Pablo Clark-Guillen was arrested and charged with immigrant smuggling.

A criminal complaint alleges that Clark-Guillen, who has previously been convicted for immigrant smuggling, conspired to pick up an undocumented migrant from India in Fabens on Aug. 18. The complaint alleges that when agents approached Clark-Guillen and ordered him to turn off his van, Clark-Guillen complied but broke his phone in an effort to destroy evidence, cutting his hands in the process, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

In addition to his prior smuggling conviction in 2024, Clark-Guillen has three prior DWI convictions, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Also on Aug. 18, U.S. Border Patrol agents investigating two separate smuggling events followed a vehicle to a residence in El Paso. The agents conducted an immigration inspection and confirmed that the driver, Aldo David Manjarrez-Vazquez, was an undocumented migrant. A criminal complaint alleges that Manjarrez-Vazquez had worked as an migrant pickup driver and coordinator since March 2024, receiving approximately $720 per migrant he picked up and making $250 as a coordinator. Manjarrez-Vazquez is alleged to have picked up and transported more than 10 undocumented migrants in the El Paso and Tornillo areas.

Jesus Gamboa-Chavez, an undocumented migrant from Mexico, was charged with migrant smuggling after a Texas Department of Public Safety (TXDPS) trooper conducted a traffic stop and requested assistance from Homeland Security Investigations. A criminal complaint alleges that further investigation led agents to a stash house in El Paso that Gamboa-Chavez was allegedly renting.

A joint operation with HSI, USBP, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations, and TXDPS, resulted in the apprehension of 16 undocumented from various Central and South American countries, two of whom were minor children. One of the children was unaccompanied.

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