TRUCK FULL OF MIGRANTS FOUND

54 people held in wake of wild night on N. Side

It was one of those things you wouldn’t expect in a quiet residential neighborhood.

Staffers Jacob Beltran, Peggy O’Hare and Elizabeth Zavala focused on the Leland Terrace subdivision after unauthorized migrants from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Brazil were discoved a tractor-trailer parked in an alley.

Fifty-four people were apprehended, including the truck driver. Six people were hospitalized for minor injuries.

A couple living in the neighborhood were skeptical that only 54 people were involved in the incident and speculated that some of the migrants might have escaped.

The woman, a nurse, said some of the people who tried to flee as authorities arrived suffered broken limbs when they fell or tried to jump fences.

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Zavala reported officials were sorting through the detained migrants, seeking to determine which ones would be considered material witnesses in a criminal case against the suspected driver, Gerardo Javier Carreon, 36, of Laredo.

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William Luther / San Antonio Express-News People who’d been aboard the 18-wheeler parked in an alley near Loop 410 and Broadway were taken away on a bus.