Texas Police Arrest Honduran Deportee Allegedly Driving with Pistol, Fake License near Border

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers interdicted multiple human smuggling operations, leading to the arrests of smugglers and migrants. In one incident, troopers found a deported Honduran man in possession of a .45 caliber handgun and fake driver’s licenses.

A DPS trooper assigned to Operation Lone Star stopped a Chevy SUV in Kinney County, Texas, earlier this week. The trooper identified the man as a Honduran migrant who had previously been deported. The trooper found the man to be in possession of a .45 caliber handgun from Louisiana and fake driver’s licenses from New York. He was deported in 2005 but failed to show for court, according to a tweet from Texas DPS spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez.

A @TxDPS stopped a Chevy SUV on US 90 in Kinney Co. The driver, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, was in poss. of a stolen .45 cal handgun from Louisiana & a fictitious NY driver license. The driver was to be deported in 2005 but failed to appear in court. #OperationLoneStar pic.twitter.com/Wgjiw0sqFj

— Chris Olivarez (@LtChrisOlivarez) November 24, 2022

In La Salle County, Texas, DPS troopers chased a female driver with a load of migrants. After the woman finally stopped, the trooper apprehended her and five migrants. Olivarez reported the woman admitted to being paid $3,200 per migrant for the smuggling attempt.

A @TxDPS Trooper disrupts a human smuggling attempt on FM 133 in La Salle Co. The driver was smuggling 5 illegal immigrants & admitted to getting paid $3,200 per person. She was arrested for human smuggling. The illegal immigrants absconded into the brush. #OperationLoneStar pic.twitter.com/mucBZKFspQ

— Chris Olivarez (@LtChrisOlivarez) November 22, 2022

In Maverick County, DPS Special Operations Group and Border Patrol agents teamed up to apprehend 31 migrants being smuggled inside a train. The migrants came to the U.S. from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.

The @TxDPS Special Operations Group (SOG) & US Border Patrol apprehended 31 illegal immigrants onboard a train in Maverick Co. The illegal immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, & El Salvador were referred to #USBP. #OperationLoneStar pic.twitter.com/0WngbDtDcE

— Chris Olivarez (@LtChrisOlivarez) November 22, 2022