{"id":35153,"date":"2025-06-27T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/smugglers-sentenced-to-decades-in-prison-3-years-after-53-migrants-found-dead-in-back-of-truck-in-texas\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T17:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T17:19:44","slug":"smugglers-sentenced-to-decades-in-prison-3-years-after-53-migrants-found-dead-in-back-of-truck-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/smugglers-sentenced-to-decades-in-prison-3-years-after-53-migrants-found-dead-in-back-of-truck-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Smugglers sentenced to decades in prison 3 years after 53 migrants found dead in back of truck in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Two smugglers convicted of federal charges in connection with the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/san-antonio-migrants-texas-tractor-trailer-dead-injured\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">deaths of 53 migrants<\/a><\/span> found in the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas in 2022 were sentenced to decades in prison on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Felipe Orduna-Torres, 32, and Armando Gonzales-Ortega, 55, are to be the first of several defendants sentenced in the San Antonio tragedy, which remains the nation&#8217;s deadliest human smuggling attempt across the U.S.-Mexico border. In March, a jury deliberated for\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/two-men-found-guilty-in-2022-texas-smuggling-attempt-that-resulted-in-53-migrant-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">only about an hour<\/a><\/span> before convicting the men of being part of a human smuggling conspiracy that resulted in death and injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Orduna-Torres, who\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/homero-zamorano-jr-christian-martinez-indicted-over-migrants-found-dead-in-back-of-truck-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">prosecutors described<\/a><\/span>\u00a0as the leader of the smuggling operation, was given two life sentences and an additional 20 years on a third count to be served consecutively, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kens5.com\/article\/news\/crime\/2-men-deadly-migrant-tragedy-quintana-road-sentenced-san-antonio-trailer\/273-bfbc5ef6-20b3-4800-afae-10939a681a9b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS affiliate KENS<\/a>. Gonzales-Ortega was sentenced to 87.5 years in prison. Prosecutors had described Gonzales-Ortega as Orduna-Torres&#8217; top assistant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both men were also fined $250,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 64 immigrants inside the truck had come from Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico and had paid between $12,000 and $15,000 each to be smuggled into the United States, according to an indictment in the case. They had made it as far as the Texas border city of Laredo when they were placed into a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/latin-america-texas-san-antonio-guatemala-city-f8ff76d8cc60a46ad7e5cab77c70112f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tractor-trailer with broken air conditioning<\/a>\u00a0for a three-hour drive to San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>As the temperature rose inside the trailer, those inside screamed and banged the walls of the trailer for help or tried to claw their way out, investigators said. Most eventually passed out. When the trailer was opened in San Antonio, 48 people were already dead. Another 16 were taken to hospitals, where five more died. The dead included six children and a pregnant woman. Only 11 people inside the vehicle survived.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/27\/15f1a950-ff35-4531-9400-75abf2ed305a\/thumbnail\/620x413\/7f988da5ce4d580f7c876c99eb4097ca\/ap25177817715151.jpg#\" alt=\"Texas Migrants Tractor Trailer \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/27\/15f1a950-ff35-4531-9400-75abf2ed305a\/thumbnail\/620x413\/7f988da5ce4d580f7c876c99eb4097ca\/ap25177817715151.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/06\/27\/15f1a950-ff35-4531-9400-75abf2ed305a\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/cd3ce932e537c2843e098a7d3608be8e\/ap25177817715151.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Body bags lie at the scene where a tractor trailer with multiple dead bodies was discovered, Monday, June 27, 2022, in San Antonio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Eric Gay \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a news briefing shortly after the incident, San Antonio police chief William McManus described the scene as &#8220;tragic beyond words.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand how anyone could be so callous as to allow it happen and run from the scene,&#8221; McManus\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/migrants-deaths-tractor-trailer-smuggling-operation-san-antonio-crime-against-humanity-police-chief-william-mcmanus\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">said<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Orduna-Torres and Gonzales-Ortega were sentenced exactly three years after the tragedy. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the Orduna-Torres and Gonzales-Ortega worked with human smuggling operations in Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, and shared routes, guides, stash houses, trucks and trailers. Orduna-Torres provided the address in Laredo where they would be picked up, and Gonzalez-Ortega met them there.<\/p>\n<p>Five other men previously pleaded guilty to felony charges in the smuggling case, including the truck driver\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/driver-pleads-guilty-2022-texas-smuggling-attempt-53-migrant-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Homero Zamorano Jr<\/a><\/span>., who was found hiding near the trailer in some bushes. Zamorano faces up to life in prison when sentenced in December. The <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/four-new-arrests-2022-texas-migrant-smuggling-deaths-tractor-trailer-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">other defendants<\/a><\/span> are scheduled to be sentenced later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is the deadliest among tragedies that have claimed thousands of lives in recent decades as people attempt to cross the U.S. border from Mexico.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-domestic-news-domestic-news-fe5ca6ab0db546f38fe9b328cab2bcfb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ten immigrants died in 2017<\/a>\u00a0after they were trapped inside a truck parked at a Walmart store in San Antonio. 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