{"id":2031201,"date":"2023-09-13T21:34:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T01:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alleged-ringleader-of-human-smuggling-organization-extradited-to-san-diego\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T21:35:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T01:35:15","slug":"alleged-ringleader-of-human-smuggling-organization-extradited-to-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alleged-ringleader-of-human-smuggling-organization-extradited-to-san-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected leader of human smuggling group sent to San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falleged-ringleader-of-human-smuggling-organization-extradited-to-san-diego%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2031201&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Alleged Leader of Human Smuggling Organization Extradited to San Diego<\/h2>\n<p>In an exciting development, the alleged leader of a &#8220;prolific&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alleged-ringleader-of-human-smuggling-organization-extradited-to-san-diego\/\" title=\"Suspected leader of human smuggling group sent to San Diego\">human smuggling\u200c organization<\/a> has been extradited to San Diego to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-charged-with-election-interference-for-social-media-post\/\" title=\"Conservative charged with election interference for social media post\">face federal charges<\/a>. Luis Antonio\u200b Mendez-Brahan, \u200b55, of Tijuana, \u200cis accused of bringing hundreds of migrants into the United States, according to\u2062 the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s\u200b Office.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors claim that Mendez-Brahan operated this smuggling organization \u200bfor\u200d nearly a decade, charging\u200c migrants between $6,000 and $8,000 for \u200dtheir illegal entry into \u2064the country. The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office revealed that financial\u2064 transactions conducted \u200dby Mendez-Brahan&#8217;s children in the United States led law enforcement to \u2062track the money to Tijuana&#8217;s money service businesses, ultimately leading \u200dto his arrest.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/woman-arrested-for-allegedly-sending-drug-soaked-letter-to-jail-inmate-5490273\">Woman Arrested for Allegedly Sending Drug-Soaked Letter to San Diego Jail Inmate<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp-caption\">9\/12\/2023<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/boy-16-wounded-in-arm-during-shooting-with-police-in-san-diego-5489169\">Boy, 16, Wounded in Arm During Shooting With Police in San \u200dDiego<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp-caption\">9\/10\/2023<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, three of Mendez-Brahan&#8217;s \u200bchildren\u2014Wendy \u2063Monserrath Mendez, Christopher Mendez, and\u200d Nancy Jacqueline Suarez\u2014have already pleaded guilty\u200d and received sentences for\u200c their involvement in their father&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aleged-ringleader-of-human-smuggling-organization-extradited-to-san-diego\/\" title=\"Suspected leader of human smuggling group sent to San Diego\">alleged smuggling operation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mendez-Brahan was indicted \u2062by a grand jury \u200cin 2019 on charges of conspiring to bring illegal immigrants into \u2062the U.S. and five \u2064counts of bringing unlawful immigrants into\u200b the country. However, he managed \u2062to evade capture until \u200cnow.<\/p>\n<p>According to \u200cthe U.S. Attorney\u200c of Southern California, Mendez-Brahan&#8217;s organization operated in a \u200blocation east of \u200bthe Tecate Port of Entry. They employed a network of ever-changing spotters, guides, and drivers to successfully smuggle the illegal immigrants across the \u200dborder.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n  <em>Julianne Foster \u2064contributed\u2063 to this article.<\/em>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO\u2014Luis Antonio Mendez-Brahan, 55, of Tijuana, has been extradited to San Diego. He is accused of leading a human smuggling organization for almost ten years, bringing hundreds of migrants into the United States. Facing federal charges, Mendez-Brahan is now in the hands of the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":2031202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}