Illegal alien skips trial for smuggling aliens

Posted By: Carolyn Hileman* on September 30, 2007

Bob Campbell

Margarito “Mike” Ibañez’ chair at the defense table was empty Tuesday while he was tried in absentia in U. S. District Court for transporting undocumented workers for financial gain. Judge Robert Junell had adjourned the seven-man, five-woman jury at 11 a.m. Monday after giving up on the 38-year-old Mexican citizen from El Paso and issuing a bench warrant for the arrest of the accused coyote, a term for people who smuggle illegal immigrants into the U.S. Assistant U.S. Attorney John Klassen and court-appointed defense lawyer Scott Tidwell rested their cases about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and Junell set final arguments for 9 a.m. today in the case in which Ibañez was allegedly implicated after the fact.

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