Fedes accuse “El Jefe”, assumed that the human smuggler behind the fatal accident

The Federal Authorities in Los Angeles arrested and accused two alleged leaders of a criminal organization, said they had smuggled around 20,000 Immigrants without Documents in the US over five years – including seven who died in a car accident in 2023.

Eduardo Domingo Renoj-Matul, called “El Jefe” and “Turko” and Cristobal Mejia-Chaj were arrested last week and pleaded guilty for a lot of accusations related to smuggling migrants along the US border. A federal judge illegally ordered men, who are in the country, closed unrelated.

Lawyers for Renoj-Matul and Mejia-Chaj did not respond immediately to a comment request.

Friday’s arrests requested fears of an “attack” of immigration and customs application in Los Angeles. Yasmeen Pitts O’Keefe, a spokeswoman for ICE, said before that there is an “ongoing investigation of human smuggling.”

According to an indictment to last week, the “Transnational Criminal Organization Renoj-Matul” worked for at least one dozen and specialized in the transport of migrants from Guatemala. Federal authorities have called one of the largest human smuggling organizations in the country.

Helmer Uspo-Hernandez is assumed that a lieutenant in the organization and a supervisor of a driver’s team, and Jose Paxtor-Oxlaj, who would have worked as a driver, were also accused, according to the indictment.

It is believed that Uspo-Hernandez is in Guatemala, the federal authorities said. Paxtor-Oxlaj has been in arrest in Oklahoma since November 21, 2023, when he was involved in a car accident that killed seven people in Los Angeles, including three minors, according to the indictment. One of those killed was a 4 year old child, according to Local news reports.

Renoj-Matul would have worked with associates in Guatemala who asked immigrants to come to the US, collecting between 15,000 and $ 18,000 for each. Lieutenants within the Renoj-Matul organization led the smuggling cells with driver teams and stash house operators, according to the indictment.

Mejia-Chaj, described as the “man on the right” of Renoj-Matul, would have operated on a stash house on James M. Wood boulevard from LA, where the people smuggled by the organization were brought and detained. After the smuggling fee was paid, the migrants were transported elsewhere in the country, according to the indictment. If they had not paid the tax, they would have detained against their will.

Even after the fatal collision of the Elk City car in 2023, which would have caused Paxtator-Oxlaj, smuggling continued, according to the indictment. In a case of 2024, a document without document, mentioned only by his MMA initials, was supported against his will in the Stash house for three months, when the $ 15,000 smuggling tax was unpaid.

According to the indictment, after a third party gave up the payment of MMA’s smuggling fees, the renoj-mamat and others in Guatemala named the woman’s mother and threatened to hurt her daughter, including warning that she will “come home in a box” if the taxes were not paid.

Last year, on August 7, an unspoken co-conspirator appointed MMA mother blaming her for a search for the law of the wooden house in the previous month. According to the indictment, in December, three unidentified persons in Guatemala traveled to the Mama Mama house in Guatemala and asked for payment, threatening it with firearms.