US, Guatemala say they dismantled smuggling ring tied to Texas migrant deaths

FILE PHOTO: Law enforcement officers work at the scene where migrants were found dead inside a trailer truck in San Antonio, Texas, U.S. June 28, 2022. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal/File Photo

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities in the United States and Guatemala said on Thursday they dismantled a human-smuggling network with ties to the deaths of 53 migrants on a sweltering truck in Texas in 2022.

At the request of the U.S. government, Guatemalan law enforcement arrested on Wednesday Rigoberto Ramon Miranda-Orozco, who is charged in the United States with conspiring to smuggle four migrants who wound up on the tractor-trailer, including three who died.