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Final Human Smuggler Extradited from Guatemala for 2021 Mass Casualty Event in Chiapas, Mexico

Oct 23, 2025

A 41-year-old Guatemalan national is set to make his initial appearance in U.S. federal court on charges stemming from a crash of a tractor-trailer packed with at least 160 illegal aliens – many of them Guatemalan – that killed more than 50 people, including unaccompanied children, and injured over 100 more, the Justice Department announced today.

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