In the first three weeks of Arizona’s new anti-smuggling law, law enforcement officers in Cochise County arrested 43 alleged smugglers.
One of them is an 18-year-old college student who used his parents’ vehicle, according to Carol Capas, spokeswomen for the Cochise County Sheriffs Office.
“He lives at home with his parents and he just wanted some extra money and he heard that this was a good way to do it,” Capas told NTD’s Melina Wisecup.
“Now he’s sitting in our jail on a class two felony, and he’s going to be there for a while.”
Cochise County is mostly remote desert and ranchland. It sits on the border with Mexico and is a thoroughfare for illegal aliens who are avoiding law enforcement in order to disappear further into the United States….