{"id":786656,"date":"2026-05-10T13:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786656\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T13:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:58:14","slug":"5-suspects-arrested-in-phoenix-alien-smuggling-operation-u-s-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786656\/","title":{"rendered":"5 suspects arrested in Phoenix \u2018alien smuggling operation\u2019: U.S. Attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five people have been arrested for running an &#8220;alien smuggling operation\u201d in Phoenix, federal authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Rigoberto Rangel-Mora, 40, of Mexico, Jesus Marin-Esquivel, 52, of Mexico, Ingrid Bolanos-Gomez, 41, of Guatemala, Alejandro Ambrocio-Espinosa, 32, of Mexico, and Enrique Cervantes-Barrera, 48, of Mexico, were indicted by a federal grand jury earlier this month for conspiracy to transport and harbor illegal aliens based on their participation in the smuggling operation, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office, Arizona district.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were arrested following an investigation led by agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection\u2019s U.S. Border Patrol Intelligence Unit and Homeland Security Investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people have been arrested for running an &#8220;alien smuggling operation\u201d in Phoenix, federal authorities said. Rigoberto Rangel-Mora,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":786657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-786656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116550638623222538","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786656","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=786656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}