Pilot gets six months for smuggling Chinese immigrants
Licensed archive · Attributed source reporting
411 Brief
Christian Delgado Gomez, a San Antonio pilot, was sentenced to six months and forced to pay a $500 fine for smuggling four undocumented Chinese immigrants. The incident occurred on January 24, 2005, when Delgado was arrested at Stinson Municipal Airport in San Antonio where he landed a small aircraft he used to transport the illegal immigrants from Eagle Pass, Texas. The officers who arrested him were acting on a tip that two planes, one from Laredo and another from Eagle Pass, would be carrying illicit cargo. This coincided with a false tip
Christian Delgado Gomez, a San Antonio pilot, was sentenced to six months and forced to pay a $500 fine for smuggling four undocumented Chinese immigrants.
The incident occurred on January 24, 2005, when Delgado was arrested at Stinson Municipal Airport in San Antonio where he landed a small aircraft he used to transport the illegal immigrants from Eagle Pass, Texas. The officers who arrested him were acting on a tip that two planes, one from Laredo and another from Eagle Pass, would be carrying illicit cargo. This coincided with a false tip that the cargo would be in coordination with a terrorist act in Boston.
The Chinese immigrants were deported.
Sources & reporting note
Licensed archive reporting by Wikinews contributors. Text: Public domain (https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Copyright). Original source date retained. 411 has not independently verified this archive report.
Read the source: Wikinews ↗Source published 12 May 2005, 05:30 am IST
