FACES UP TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON
ESP a/k/a “Irma and Boss Lady,” (32), of Texas, pleaded guilty in early January to her involvement in a “scheme to illegally transport hundreds of foreign nationals” within the USA, and to have laundered “proceeds of illicit human smuggling.”
The victims were migrants – citizens of Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia – who paid for assistance traveling (illegally) within the United States.
Migrants were reportedly stashed in suitcases, crammed into tractor trailers, pickup trucks, water tankers, and wooden crates, and were referred to by ESP, and her co-conspirators, as “boxes,” “packages,” or “pieces.”
Together with forfeiting real estate valued at over $2.7 million, ESP was hit with a money judgment in the amount of $942,537.00. She is scheduled to be sentenced on April 10, 2024, and faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
There was no smuggling her with kindness there.
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