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On 10/19/25, a Texas DPS Trooper stopped a maroon Dodge dually on US 277 in Maverick County. As the vehicle came to a stop, multiple illegal immigrants dressed in camouflage bailed out toward the brush. The driver, Salvador Fuentes Castillo of Eagle Pass, was arrested and charged with 6...

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