ALBUQUERQUE – Victor Corral, 25, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 27 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for transporting undocumented immigrants into Doña Ana County, N.M.
Corral was arrested on July 24, 2014, on a criminal complaint charging him with conspiracy to transport illegal aliens. According to the complaint, on that day, U.S. Border Patrol Agents encountered Corral along with four other individuals traveling on New Mexico Highway 9. At the time of the encounter, Corral and the driver of the vehicle were transporting three immigrants from the United States/Mexico border where the immigrants had unlawfully entered the country to a location in El Paso, Texas. According to the criminal complaint, Corral made a post arrest statement in which he acknowledged that he earned approximately $3,000.00 a week over a nine-month period for smuggling people from El Paso to other locations in the United States.
Corral pled guilty on Sept. 5, 2014, to a felony information charging him with conspiracy to transport illegal aliens. The plea was entered without the benefit of a plea agreement.
This case was investigated by the Santa Teresa Customs and Border Protection/U.S. Border Patrol and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Luis A. Martinez of the U.S. Attorney’s Las Cruces Branch Office.
Information from Department of Justice