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4 sentenced in ‘first ever’ case for fatal Guatemalan human smuggling
The first people ever to be extradited from Guatemala to the United States to face charges of human smuggling resulting in death were hit with double-digit prison sentences in the Western District of Texas.
According to federal documents, the family of an indigenous Guatemalan woman from Quiche paid approximately $10,000 to have her smuggled to the U.S.
In April 2021, four men working with their co-conspirators had the woman, identified in the paperwork as Alien M.A.R.C, led on a journey by foot through the desert from Mexico to Texas. That journey took several days. Once in Texas, she was driven to a stash house in Odessa where she died.
The Feds claim the desert journey caused the woman’s death.
When the four men found out about Alien M.A.R.C’s death, they arranged to have her body taken from the stash house and dumped on the side of a rural road in Crane County.
After disposing of the body, the men and their co-conspirators arranged to pay off the woman’s family.
The four men held responsible for this were 40-year-old Felipe Diego Alonzo, aka Siete, 38-year-old Nesly Norberto Martinez Gomez, aka Canche, 43-year-old Lopez Mateo Mateo, aka Bud Light, and 46-year-old Juan Gutierrez Castro, aka…
