United States v. Miguel Morales-Quinones

HOLLOWAY, Chief Judge.

A federal grand jury indicted the defendant Miguel Morales-Quinones and a codefendant Manuel Saenz-Garcia on four „ counts of transporting illegal aliens in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(2) 1 and 18 U.S.C. § 2. The four counts of the indictment were virtually identical except for the name of the aliens alleged to have been transported into the United States unlawfully. The aliens named as persons transported were as follows: Count I — Gregorio Ruiz-Botello; Count II — Maria del Carmen Botello-Morales; Count III — Jose Guadalupe Espino-Rios; and Count IV — Jose Marcos…