An Arkansas man has been convicted of human smuggling for transporting migrants in the wheel well and fuel tank of a pickup at a Border Patrol checkpoint in South Texas.

U.S. Border Patrol agents at the Falfurrias, Texas checkpoint arrested a man for transporting migrants in the wheel well and fuel tank of a pickup truck.

A Corpus Christi jury convicted a 48-year-old man of smuggling four undocumented immigrants in his truck’s wheel wells and a gas tank. The jury found Noel Mercado guilty of two counts of human smuggling,

"As the Department cracks down on human smuggling and illegal immigration, we can expect smugglers to get more desperate, and thus more creative," Ganjei said. "I would like to th