{"id":333277,"date":"2026-06-12T06:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333277\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T06:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:19:14","slug":"webb-county-deputies-arrest-san-antonio-woman-in-suspected-human-smuggling-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/333277\/","title":{"rendered":"Webb County deputies arrest San Antonio woman in suspected human smuggling attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WEBB COUNTY, Tex. (KGNS) &#8211; Webb County deputies disrupted another suspected human smuggling attempt under Operation Lone Star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It happened just before 6 p.m. Tuesday along an interstate access road near mile marker 33, where officials say people use it to avoid the Border Patrol checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies say they stopped a gray Lincoln SUV and noticed several people in the back seats leaning forward with their heads down, appearing to hide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver, 42-year-old Jennifer Christina Stegall of San Antonio, allegedly told deputies all five passengers were in the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She was arrested on five counts of human smuggling. The five undocumented immigrants were turned over to U.S. Border Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Stegall was booked into the Webb County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more headlines, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgns.tv\/news\/local\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KGNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEBB COUNTY, Tex. (KGNS) &#8211; Webb County deputies disrupted another suspected human smuggling attempt under Operation Lone Star.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7685,7686,82,84,83,33188,119099,119098],"class_list":["post-333277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-kgns","tag-laredo","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-webb-county","tag-webb-county-deputies-arrest-san-antonio-woman-in-suspected-human-smuggling-attempt","tag-webb-county-deputies-disrupted-another-suspected-human-smuggling-attempt-under-operation-lone-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}