Ex-‘Crime Victim Coordinator’ Admits to Human Smuggling, Misused County Vehicle
Former Texas DA’s Ex-Coordinator Pleads Guilty to Human Smuggling; Using County Vehicle for Illegal Trips. Garza Admits to Scheme of Transporting Illegal Immigrants. Co-Conspirators Involved in the Operation. Sentencing Scheduled. Read more at: [Link to full article](https://www.westernjournal.com/author/russdavis/). Former Texas District Attorney’s Former Coordinator, Bernice Annette Garza, has pleaded guilty to human smuggling and misusing a county vehicle for illicit activities. Garza confessed to orchestrating the transportation of illegal immigrants. The operation involved accomplices, and sentencing arrangements are in progress. For more details, please refer to the full article [here](https://www.westernjournal.com/author/russdavis/).
By Jack Davis May 20, 2024 at 6:36am
A former crime victim coordinator for a Texas district attorney has pleaded guilty to smuggling illegal immigrants across the Texas-Mexico border.
Bernice Annette Garza, formerly of the Starr County District Attorney’s Office, pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of conspiring to transport people in the country illegally, according to KURV-TV.
Garza was arrested on Dec. 7, 2022, when her county vehicle was stopped and found to have four illegal immigrants inside.
Garza later admitted she had used the vehicle more than 40 times in six months to bring illegal immigrants to Houston, KURV reported.
Magaly Rosa, who was also arrested with her husband, Juan Antonio Charles, said Garza had recruited her to join the operation, in which Garza produced fake court papers that said the illegal immigrants were crime victims, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
Rosa and her husband would keep the illegal immigrants at their home, buy them clothes and feed them, and then join Garza for the trip to Houston, according to a criminal complaint, the Express-News reported.
Charles and Rosa previously pleaded guilty to a human smuggling charge, according to KRGV-TV.
At the time of Garza’s arrest, officials said they were suspicious because the Starr County District Attorney’s Office vehicle kept making “numerous unauthorized trips to the Houston area.”
Rosa was identified as the driver of the vehicle that had Garza and Charles among the other passengers.
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Rosa told the arresting officer during the traffic stop that Garza was the Starr County district attorney, according to the criminal complaint.
According to a December report in the Express-News, the Dec. 7 traffic stop was initiated in Victoria County, Texas, because of the tinted windows on the van.
However, according to the newspaper, a criminal complaint stated that Victoria County deputies “had previously received information that this vehicle was making numerous unauthorized trips to the Houston area and was suspected of being involved in some type of criminal activity on these trips.”
Rosa told investigators that Garza had used the van and her sheriff’s office identification to get the van’s occupants past a checkpoint.
She also lent the couple the vehicle.
“Garza gave Rosa the vehicle and a DA’s badge, usually prominently displayed on the driver’s sun visor, and fraudulent court papers naming the immigrants as crime victims, Rosa alleged to investigators,” the Express-News report stated.
Sentencing for Rosa, Charles and another person who pleaded guilty in the case is set for June, according to KRGV.
Garza’s sentencing is set for September.
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