One of the men accused of helping smuggle dozens of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to San Antonio in an overheated tractor trailer, resulting in the deaths of 53 of the migrants, has pleaded not guilty to four federal human trafficking charges.
Christian Martinez, 28, of Palestine in East Texas, made the plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Bemporad during an arraignment hearing at San Antonio’s federal courthouse on Thursday.
. Several more, who were incapacitated, were transported to area hospitals where they died. Temperatures that day hovered at around 100 degrees, and experts have said it could have been more than 140 degrees in the trailer.‘They had dreams’ — ceremony honors 53 migrants who died in sweltering trailer on San Antonio’s Southwest Side
Last month, after Martinez and Zamorano were indicted by a federal grand jury, federal authorities revealed that Martinez and Zamorano had worked together on three prior smuggling trips before the one on June 27.
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