As the death toll from a deserted tractor-trailer packed with illegal immigrants that was found on Monday topped 50, officials announced that two Mexican nationals in the United States illegally have been charged in connection with the incident.
The dead illegal immigrants were found in an area of San Antonio. Police took 46 bodies out of the trailer, with others dying despite being taken to local hospitals.
On Tuesday, Juan Francisco D’Luna-Bilbao and Juan Claudio D’Luna-Mendez appeared in federal court on weapons charges.
Police said that the tractor-trailer’s registration led them to a San Antonio house. When San Antonio police went to the house, they found multiple weapons inside, according to The Washington Post.
According to court records, both men admitted they were Mexican citizens who were in the country illegally after overstaying their visas.
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No plea was entered Tuesday during a hearing in which the men said they understood the charges against them but said nothing else.
According to a report in the San Antonio Express-News, Homero Zamorano, 45, has also been arrested and was identified as the driver of the tractor-trailer.
“He was very high on meth when he was arrested nearby and had to be taken to the hospital,” the newspaper quoted what it said was a law enforcement officer it did not name as saying.
Reuters reported the man arrested was a U.S.citizen and that he would be formally charged upon his release.
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