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Smuggler Sentenced for Otay Mesa High-Speed Crash that Killed Two Migrants
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Man Gets Nearly 6 Years for Smuggling 2 Illegal Immigrants and Causing Fatal Crash
A federal judge sentenced a San Diego County man to 71 months in prison for smuggling two illegal immigrants over the border and causing a crash that left them dead, prosecutors reported July 2. Prosecutors say Sergio Josue Palomera of Chula Vista picked up a man and a woman on Oct. 22, 2024, in his car at the U.S.-Mexico border in Otay Mesa, Calif., about 20 miles southeast of downtown San Diego. Border Patrol agents using surveillance witness…
A Chula Vista man who was transporting two undocumented immigrants in a car that crashed while fleeing Border Patrol agents, killing both passengers, was sentenced Wednesday to nearly six years in federal prison. Sergio Josué Palomera, 23, fled from Border Patrol on October 22 after being seen loading the migrants into his car near the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. In court documents, the attorney's office wrote th…
Chula Vista man sentenced for role in deadly crash during human smuggling attempt
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) -- A man from Chula Vista was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison Wednesday for his role in a fatal high-speed crash that killed two undocumented immigrants he was attempting to smuggle across the border. Sergio Josue Palomera, 23, was handed a 71-month sentence by U.S. District Judge Todd W. Robinson for human smuggling resulting in death — a charge stemming from an 2024 crash in Otay Mesa that ended a…
Smuggler Sentenced for Otay Mesa high-speed crash that killed two migrants
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer wears a patch on their sleeve. (Photo courtesy of Customs and Border Protection) A Chula Vista man who crashed while fleeing Border Patrol officers, killing two undocumented passengers, was sentenced Wednesday to nearly six years in federal prison. Sergio Josue Palomera, 23, fled from Border Patrol last Oct. 22 after he was spotted loading the migrants into his car near the U.S.-Mexico border, accordi…
Chula Vista man sentenced to 71 months for deadly smuggling attempt
SAN DIEGO, California — Sergio Josue Palomera, a 23-year-old from Chula Vista, California, was sentenced to 71 months in federal prison for smuggling undocumented immigrants, resulting in two deaths. The incident occurred on October 22, 2024, near the U.S.–Mexico border…
San Diego.- A chicken who caused the death of a migrant mother, and a migrant man, after a persecution with the Border Patrol, was sentenced to six years in a federal prison, at a hearing in the federal court in San Diego, today Wednesday, July 2. Sergio Josue Palomera, a 23-year-old native of Chula Vista, was sentenced to transportation by certain foreigners resulting in death. The case was recorded on October 22, 2024, when Sergio Josue Palome…
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