SAN ANTONIO – A woman has been sentenced in federal court for her role in a human smuggling operation.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that 50-year-old Temple Ordaz-Alvarado had been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison after being convicted of helping smuggle 53 illegal migrants into the country.<\/p>\n
According to the DOJ, Ordaz-Alvarado transported undocumented immigrants between Eagle Pass and San Antonio between Sept. 8, 2021, to May 21, 2024.<\/p>\n
“Ordaz-Alvarado was arrested during a traffic stop driving ahead of her co-conspirator, Honduran national Erin Gutierrez-Maradiaga, who was discovered to be transporting four illegal aliens,” said the Department of Justice in a statement. “During the traffic stop, U.S. Border Patrol agents seized approximately $3,004 in proceeds from Ordaz-Alvarado.”<\/p>\n
Upon further investigation, it was revealed that Gutierrez-Maradiaga had driven from Houston to Eagle Pass, where Temple Ordaz-Alvarado had offered to pay him $1,500 per immigrant, to transport four immigrants to San Antonio.<\/p>\n
Ordaz-Alvarado pled guilty to human smuggling charges on Aug. 12, 2024, and has been sentenced to 60 months in U.S. Federal Prison. Co-defendant Gutierrez-Maradiaga was sentenced to 76 months in prison on March 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – A woman has been sentenced in federal court for her role in a human smuggling…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,131359,50527,131360,38137,17802,131358,7202,7203,131357,358,3187,94,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-247231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-co-conspirator","10":"tag-eagle-pass","11":"tag-erin-gutierrez-maradiaga","12":"tag-federal-prison","13":"tag-human-smuggling","14":"tag-illegal-migrants","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-sanantonio","17":"tag-temple-ordaz-alvarado","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-u-s-department-of-justice","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115250052775780085","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}