A Mexican illegal alien was sentenced to 21 years in prison on July 5 for his role in leaving a female Honduran illegal alien to die on the side of a Texas road in a 2018 human-smuggling incident.
Nelson Bahena-Garcia, 43, was found guilty and sentenced in the Southern District of Texas for conspiring to commit hostage-taking resulting in death, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) said in a statement. He’s expected to be deported after his release from prison.
During the hearing, the court heard that Bahena-Garcia used threats and intimidation to operate a human-smuggling stash house.
The victim, who was a missing Honduran female, was at the stash house and not released for medical care during the smuggling attempt, according to HSI….