The soldiers, Isaiah Gore, 21, and Denerio Williams, 22, both of them active duty, pleaded guilty in December 2021 to conspiring to transport undocumented aliens, according to a statement released by US Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery on Friday. They were sentenced to 2 1/2 years 2 years in prison, respectively.

An investigation into the scheme revealed that Gore actively recruited people to pick up undocumented immigrants while Williams and other soldiers served as drivers, who then took the immigrants elsewhere in Texas in exchange for money.

Authorities initially caught wind of the operation on June 13, 2021, when authorities spotted two soldiers —Emmanuel Oppongagyare and Ralph Gregory Saint-Joie — with two undocumented people in the trunk of their vehicle at a Hebbronville Border Patrol checkpoint.

Source – DailyNews