A man has pleaded guilty to human smuggling charges after he was observed helping people travel from Mexico to the U.S. through a California sewage pipe, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
In a plea agreement, Kevin Noe Campos Villa, 20, admitted that he helped seven unauthorized immigrants travel through sewer pipes near the San Ysidro port of entry during heavy rains. The sewer pipes are typically covered with grates that prevent people from using them, which connect the U.S. and Mexico at multiple points, but those grates are removed during periods of heavy rain to allow water to flow without damaging the system.
U.S. Border Patrol officers observed Campos helping unauthorized immigrants through the sewer pipes, proscutors said. When those officers confronted him, Campos and three of the immigrants allegedly ran and fell into the Tijuana River, where they were rescued by San Diego lifeguards.
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