ILLEGAL ALIEN AND GUATEMALAN NATIONAL EXTRADITED TO THE U.S. ADMIT TO ROLES IN 2021 ALIEN SMUGGLING MASS CASUALTY EVENT IN CHIAPAS, MEXICO

WASHINGTON, July 8 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division issued the following news release:

An illegal alien from Guatemala and a Guatemalan national have pleaded guilty to human smuggling charges related to the crash of a tractor-trailer packed with at least 160 illegal aliens which resulted in the deaths of more than 50 people, including unaccompanied children, and injured over 100 more.These two defendants are part of a group of six who were charged in this case. Five of six defendants have now admitted to their role in a conspiracy to bring illegal aliens from Guatemala into the United States.

Agapito Jorge Ventura, 34, and an illegal alien from Guatemala, and Oswaldo Manuel Zavala Quino, 26, a Guatemalan national extr...