{"id":1145986,"date":"2022-07-21T04:31:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1145986"},"modified":"2022-07-22T10:07:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T15:07:26","slug":"two-indicted-in-migrant-death-trailer-case-that-left-53-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1145986","title":{"rendered":"Two men indicted in migrant death-trailer case that left 53 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1146008\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/07\/ChristianMartinez-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>SAN ANTONIO (AP) &#8211; Two men have been indicted in the case of a tractor-trailer rig found with 53 dead or dying migrants inside in San Antonio. A statement from the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in San Antonio says 46-year-old Homero Zamorano Jr., of Pasadena, and 28-year-old Christian Martinez (pictured), of Palestine, were indicted Wednesday on counts of transporting and conspiring to transport migrants illegally resulting in death; and transporting and conspiring to transport migrants illegally resulting in serious injury. The incident happened on a remote San Antonio back road on June 27. Conviction on the death counts could result in life sentences. But the Attorney General&#8217;s Office could authorize prosecutors to seek death penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO (AP) &#8211; Two men have been indicted in the case of a tractor-trailer rig found with 53 dead or dying migrants inside in San Antonio. A statement from the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in San Antonio says 46-year-old Homero Zamorano Jr., of Pasadena, and 28-year-old Christian Martinez (pictured), of Palestine, were indicted Wednesday on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1145986\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two men indicted in migrant death-trailer case that left 53 dead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1146010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/07\/ChristianMartinez-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Two men indicted in migrant death-trailer case that left 53 dead","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 23:15:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/07\/ChristianMartinez-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Two men indicted in migrant death-trailer case that left 53 dead","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1145986"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146111,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145986\/revisions\/1146111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1146010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1145986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1145986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1145986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}