DEL RIO, Texas – A Corpus Christi man was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for leading law enforcement on a chase while transporting undocumented migrants.
According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas, Thomas Bucciarelli, 40, failed to yield to law enforcement in Carrizo Springs on Aug. 20, 2022.
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Bucciarelli drove through red traffic lights and crashed into a vehicle that was stopped at an intersection, the release said.
U.S. Border Patrol agents located Bucciarelli’s vehicle in a parking lot and found four passengers in his vehicle who were determined to be undocumented migrants.
Bucciarelli was arrested, and he pleaded guilty in February 2023.