(2 Aug 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Huehuetenango - 2 August 2022
1. Police officers wearing hoods walking to building
HEADLINE: Guatemala arrests migrant smugglers wanted by the US
2. Officers standing beside people on balcony
3. Officer inspecting garage
4. Police officer inspecting taxidermy of feline
5. Police officer standing on road
ANNOTATION: This is one of four raids the police carried across Guatemala against a migrant smuggling ring on Tuesday.
6. Various of garden
ANNOTATION: Four of the 19 people arrested are wanted in connection with the death of a Guatemalan migrant in Texas last year.
7. Guatemala's prosecutor for migrant trafficking Stuardo Campo, standing beside officers
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Stuardo Campo, Guatemala's prosecutor for migrant trafficking:
"The attorney for crimes against migrants handed proof to the US Justice Department, and based on the shared probatory system, they filed a lawsuit to the Grand Jury in the Texas Court, which ordered the detention of four Guatemalans, to be extradited to the U.S."
9. Campo with officers
11. Officer walking inside property
12. Patrol car parked beside property
13. Horshoes hanging on fence
14. Stable
ANNOTATION: The arrests came a month after 53 migrants, including 21 Guatemalans, died in a failed smuggling attempt, abandoned in a trailer in San Antonio, Texas.
15. Police guarding detainee inside patrol car
16. Police leaving property in patrol car
ANNOTATION:
There was no indication those arrested were involved in the tragedy.
17. Police helicopter flying over property
STORYLINE:
At dawn, police and federal agents with cover from helicopters flying overhead raided a large ranch nestled among the mountains of northern Guatemala, not far from the border with Mexico.
Unlike the ranch's impoverished neighbors, inside authorities found horse stables, a swimming pool, late model vehicles, guns and a still drunk Felipe Diego Alonso, the alleged leader of a smuggling ring that moved migrants from Guatemala north to the United States.
The raid was part of several carried out Tuesday in four Guatemalan provinces against a migrant smuggling ring, for which authorities say they've documented $2 million in revenue since 2019.
Alonzo and three others arrested Tuesday were targets of U.S. prosecutors, wanted in connection with the death of a Guatemalan migrant in Texas last year.
In total, authorities nabbed 19 alleged members of the smuggling ring.
The arrests came a month after 53 migrants, including 21 Guatemalans, died in a failed smuggling attempt when they were abandoned inside a sweltering trailer in San Antonio, Texas.
There was no indication those arrested Tuesday were involved in the San Antonio tragedy.
It was the Attorney General’s Office backed by National Police that carried out the raids near the northern town of Huehuetenango at dawn on Tuesday.
AP video shot by Santiago Billy
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