<a href="”>www Pilots have begun using small aircraft to smuggle illegal immigrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to inland airports, according to authorities who last week seized a Cessna from a Southern California airport and brought charges against one pilot. “It seems to be a new avenue they’re using,” Border Patrol Agent Adrian Corona told a local newspaper. Federal prosecutors say 30-year-old Lino Rodriguez-Chavez used a Cessna rented from Hemet-Ryan Flight School in El Centro, California, to fly a group of illegal immigrants from a location near the border to Hemet airport. The pilot appeared in court Monday, entered a not guilty plea and was release on $20,000 bond. Multiple flights have been intercepted by El Centro Border Patrol agents in the past few years. Border Patrol: Planes Used To Smuggle Immigrants
January 28, 2012
Border Patrol: Planes Used To Smuggle Immigrants
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