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PA National Guardsman Charged With Smuggling Migrants Across Mexican Border PA National Guardsman Charged With Smuggling Migrants Across Mexican Border
PA National Guardsman Charged With Smuggling Migrants Across Mexican Border A Pennsylvania National Guardsman stationed in Texas has been charged with smuggling two migrants into Texas from Mexico, according to the US Department of Justice. Emmanuel Oppongagyare, 20 of Pennsylvania, along with Ralph Gregory Saint-Joie, 18 of Texas, appeared before a federal magistrate in Laredo, Texas on Tuesday, according to the US DOJ. Both men were in unifom when Oppongagyare attempted to drive a sedan through the Hebbronville Border Patrol (BP) on the morning of June 13, according to the criminal complaint. Saint-Joie was allegedly riding as a passenger. During a vehicle in…

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by Jillian Pikora
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NY-Bound Drug Traffickers Busted In PA With $4M In Cocaine, Heroin, Fentanyl, Authorities Say NY-Bound Drug Traffickers Busted In PA With $4M In Cocaine, Heroin, Fentanyl, Authorities Say
Ny-bound Drug Traffickers Busted In PA With $4M In Cocaine, Heroin, Fentanyl, Authorities Say A routine traffic stop led by a keen-eyed Bedminster Township patrol officer seized nearly $4 million worth of cocaine, heroin and fentanyl from a couple "passing through" during a cross-country drug trafficking operation, authorities said. Christian Ochoa, 28, of Laredo, Texas, was driving the drugs across the country and likely headed to New York, District Attorney Matt Weintraub said at a news conference on Thursday. He was likely just "passing through" Bucks County when he was stopped, Weintraub said.  Ochoa's passenger, Edith Tomasa Rodriguez Cardenas, 27, of Huntington Park,…

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by Nicole Acosta