havana/Accused of illegally smuggling 20 Ecuadorian and Chinese migrants by land and sea to Florida, Dianelys Pérez Escourido, Omar Liván Ripoll Pérez, Humberto Tamayo and Víctor Víctor Febles Gualpa will be prosecuted in the United States. Together with the fifth person involved, Joel Gil Egued, whose nationality was not specified, the Cubans are in the Key West prison.
According to Rick Ramsay, sheriff from Monroe County, the detainees are part of a “sophisticated gang” who accused each Ecuadorian of $20,000 to arrive in the United States (no details were given about the payments required of the Chinese migrants). The officer explained to the Miami portal WPLG Local 10 that each migrant “paid 4,000 to leave Ecuador, another 3,000 in the Bahamas, as well as 1,000 to the operator of the vehicle that would transport them when they landed in the United States.” ” Another $12,000 had to be paid to reach the final destination: New York or New Jersey.
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The migrants, who were caught after landing near County Road, offered details of the procedure of the group, which used speedboats and SUV-like trucks, in which they transported undocumented immigrants.
Ramsay did not specify the immigration status of the detained Cubans, but revealed that they are originally from Havana and Camagüey. Also, according to the local television channel 12 News, “bail of $100,000” was given to each person involved.
Dianelys Pérez Escourido, 44 years old, keeps a hidden image in Miami, where Camagüeyans Omar Liván Ripoll Pérez (28) and Humberto Tamayo (48) were also arrested. The investigations found Víctor Víctor Febles Gualpa (38) of Havana in West Palm Beach and Joel Gil Egued (48) in Cape Coral.
he is sheriff He said the local prosecutor’s office decided to pursue the case after officials from the Federal Prosecutor’s Office decided not to file charges. “The Sheriff’s Office and the State’s Attorney’s Office do not condone criminal behavior and will always work to hold those who break the law accountable,” he said.
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Cases of people from the Island being involved in migrant smuggling crimes are not new. This past Monday, the Cuban Enrique Nerey Valdivia He was convicted of migrant smuggling in the state of Texas. Judge David S. Morales, who presided over the trial, set sentencing for November 6.
Two other Cubans, Diojany Carrillo Rodríguez and Dariel Ibanez Hernández, were arrested in July and also face human trafficking charges. According to Texas State Security spokesman Chris Olivarez, Maverick County Police surprised them on Highway 277 while they were transporting two migrants from Mexico and handed them over to the US Border Patrol.
Carrillo Rodríguez, who was driving a Chevy Malibu, admitted that he picked up the undocumented Mexicans at a location in Eagle Pass and had a GPS location to reach an address in the city of Houston . As for Ibanez Hernández, a source confirmed to him 14 middle that his situation has not yet been explained, although he has been told that once the sentence is known, he will be sent to the Island.
At the same time, the Cubans Rainel Lázaro Silies and Lima Galvez Gonzalez They were arrested in April 2023 for the crime of smuggling migrants in the American county of Kinney (Texas). The arrest took place in the town of Brackettville, when they were transporting five undocumented people in a vehicle with a Kentucky license plate.
