During the week of June 20 to 26, U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei announced 202 prosecutions in the Southern District of Texas related to Operation Take Back America. The charges included human smuggling, illegal entry and reentry, firearms offenses, and exporting stolen vehicles. Two Cuban nationals, Sadiel Noa-Aguila and Miguel Baez-Echevarria, were charged in a vehicle theft case involving stolen cars from cities such as Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, and various Texas locations, which were allegedly shipped to Mexico through U.S. ports of entry, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Several Mexican nationals with past convictions, including drug trafficking and sexual assault, were arrested for illegally reentering the United States. One of them, Jesus Jaime Saavedra-Orozco, had a previous conviction for aggravated sexual assault of a child and now faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted again. In a separate case, Giovanni Vincente Mosquera Serrano, known as El Viejo and identified as a leader of the Tren de Aragua, was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List. He is accused of "conspiring to provide and providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization - TdA" and participating in cocaine distribution involving the United States. Authorities say he could face a life sentence and a $10 million fine. A $3 million reward is being offered for information leading to his arrest, as reported by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Operation Take Back America is a joint effort by federal and local law enforcement to address illegal immigration and violent crime. As part of this operation, a Mexican citizen was sentenced to 180 months in prison for possessing child pornography involving very young children. The Southern District of Texas, which serves over nine million people, continues to process numerous cases and coordinate with federal task forces focused on cartel-related activity and border enforcement, as stated by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
