BP has busy weekend arresting smuggler, convicted felon | Crime

Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector were busy over the weekend, arresting a smuggler and a convicted murderer. 

The first incident occurred on December 8, when Nogales agents working an I-19 checkpoint arrested Ezequiel Martinez for human smuggling.  A canine agent alerted to Martinez’s car, so agents pulled him aside for a secondary inspection.  During the search two people, suspected illegal aliens, were found hiding in his trunk. 

According to a Border Patrol news release Martinez now faces federal prosecution for alien smuggling.

In a separate incident later Saturday evening, this one involving agents from the Ajo Station who stopped a man, identified as Juan Valdouinos-Rosales, for entering the U.S. illegally.  While the agents were processing Valdouinos-Rosales his record alerted to a previous felony conviction, a murder charge in 2000 in Seattle, Washington and a 160 month sentence in Shelton, Washington. 

Valdouinos-Rosales had been returned to Mexico in April 2012.  He now faces federal prosecution for reentry of an aggravated felon, according to a Border Patrol news release.