‘We knocked her out with some gummies:’ coordinator in unaccompanied child smuggling ring admits to conspiring to smuggle toddler from Mexico

"From August to September 2023, Vanessa Valadez and other family members operated a child smuggling ring working to bring young non-citizen children from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, into the United States. All the children were under the age of five."

Sept 2024
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/we-knocked-her-out-some-gummies-coordinator-unaccompanied-child-smuggling-ring-admits