{"id":2247920,"date":"2024-05-19T11:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T15:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-ols-task-force-takes-down-human-smuggling-operation\/"},"modified":"2024-05-19T11:43:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T15:43:34","slug":"exclusive-ols-task-force-takes-down-human-smuggling-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-ols-task-force-takes-down-human-smuggling-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: OLS Task Force Dismantles Human Smuggling Ring"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fexclusive-ols-task-force-takes-down-human-smuggling-operation%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=2247920&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--><p>Recently, an\u200c Operation Lone Star\u200b Task Force, led by Goliad County Sheriff Roy Boyd, successfully took down a\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">human smuggling<\/a> ring \u200ballegedly operating at the border. The operation, conducted in Roma, Starr County, resulted in the arrest of two women, with more suspects still at large. This\u200c crackdown \u200dhighlights\u2063 the ongoing efforts\u2062 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-does-britains-online-safety-proposal-mean-for-big-tech-in-the-us\/\" title=\"What impact will Britain's online safety proposal have on US Big Tech?\">combat illegal activities<\/a> in\u2064 the \u200barea.\u2062 In a recent operation in Roma, Starr County, the Operation Lone Star Task Force, under the leadership of Goliad County Sheriff \u200bRoy Boyd, dismantled a suspected human smuggling ring. Two women were apprehended, but several other suspects remain \u200bat large, emphasizing\u200d the continuous efforts to tackle illicit activities in the region.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 After a year-long investigation into a smuggling operation at the border, an Operation Lone Star Task Force led by Goliad County Sheriff Roy Boyd took down several operatives allegedly involved in human smuggling.<\/p>\n<p>The Center Square on Friday accompanied Boyd on an undercover operation in the border town of Roma in Starr County that led to the arrest of two women after one was arrested on Thursday. Two others remain at large with warrants out for their arrest.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-cori-bush-rushes-to-defense-of-very-violent-criminals-rioting-attacking-guard-in-jail\/\" title=\"Democrat Cori Bush Rushes To Defense Of \u2018Very Violent\u2019 Criminals Rioting, Attacking Guard In Jail\">early morning hours<\/a> while it was still pitch black, sheriff\u2019s deputies from Goliad and Jackson counties, Kingsville Police Department narcotics officers, and U.S. Marshalls were involved in arresting members of an alleged human trafficking ring uncovered by Goliad County Sheriff\u2019s Office investigators.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation began in coordination with Border Patrol agents. Starr County Sheriff\u2019s Office liaisons were on scene as was Texas Border Czar Mike Banks.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd\u2019s OLS Task Force members hit the second leg of an alleged human smuggling transport operation based in Roma.<\/p>\n<p>The first leg, organized by cartel operatives, involved transporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/japan-bans-new-entries-of-foreigners-after-virus-variant-arrives\/\" title=\"Japan bans new entries of foreigners after virus variant arrives\">foreign nationals<\/a> from Mexico across the Rio Grande River into Roma. After they arrived, different women, including a mother of young children, allegedly took turns transporting the foreign nationals to Houston.<\/p>\n<p>When some did, they drove through Goliad County, were apprehended and arrested on smuggling charges. Then, GCSO special investigators launched an in-depth investigation and uncovered a human smuggling ring previously unknown to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>They next identified other members of the group and discovered that they had been working together on multiple occasions acting as scouts and drivers, transporting illegal foreign nationals through Border Patrol check points and then through Goliad on their way to Houston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you commit a crime in Goliad County, with the funds provided by the governor through Operation Lone Star, we will hunt you down no matter where you are,\u201d Boyd told The Center Square, issuing a warning to those who commit similar acts in his county. \u201cWe will find you and we will arrest you. And we will provide you with free transportation to, and housing in, our jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the past 24 hours, that\u2019s exactly what happened. Three women were arrested and charged with continuous smuggling of persons, a felony that carries up to 10 years in prison per count. All three arrested are U.S. citizens and residents of Roma: Margarita Garcia 41, Jackqueline Munoz, 34, and Christine Montelango, 34. Two alleged smugglers remain at large with warrants out for their arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia was arrested on Thursday in a traffic stop. Munoz was arrested early Friday morning with her 15-year-old daughter in her vehicle. Montelango was arrested after dropping her young children off to school. She was wearing a T-shirt with an image of a rat wearing a crown holding a needle and a piece of cheese that reads, \u201csnitches get stitches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators told The Center Square it\u2019s not unusual for women, including mothers, to smuggle people. Sometimes \u201cthey use their own children as cover,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>Their findings were also typical operations of a transnational criminal organization, they said. The alleged smugglers held foreign nationals in a stash house in Mission, a border town roughly an hour east, before moving them north.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the women is being held on $175,000 bond in the Goliad County jail.<\/p>\n<p>The OLS Task Force and the Goliad Sheriff\u2019s Office have developed a reputation of pursuing and arresting those who commit crimes in their county.<\/p>\n<p>Boyd told The Center Square that transporting alleged criminals to their jail was part of their methodology \u201cof bringing defendants to the Goliad jurisdiction to ensure we conduct the most thorough investigation we can. Instead of making the arrests and turning them over to local jurisdictions, we continue investigating in an effort to identify and arrest the principals of the organization we are working with.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OLS Task Force members include \u201clike-minded\u201d sheriffs, Jackson County Sheriff Kelly R. Janica told The Center Square. He proudly joined Boyd when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-show-lockdowns-are-killing-more-people-than-the-virus\/\" title=\"How To Show Lockdowns Are Killing More People Than The Virus\">task force<\/a> was created more than two years ago. One of his deputies was on scene in Starr County, roughly four hours south of Jackson County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re committed to criminal law enforcement in our counties,\u201d Jackson said. \u201cWe will not give the cartels a foothold. We will not allow them to use our county for stash houses and staging areas. We will not allow them free passage through our counties so they can prey upon other Texans.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a year-long probe into a border smuggling ring, the Operation Lone Star Task Force, headed by Goliad County Sheriff Roy Boyd, apprehended multiple suspects linked to human trafficking. 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