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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced the arrest of Jesus Cantu-Trevino by the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Texas Office of the Attorney General, in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security in Edinburg, Texas, for Conspiracy to Commit Alien Smuggling.
Cantu-Trevino orchestrated a scheme using a fictitious assisted living facility as a front and Skyline EMS ambulances to illegally transport individuals past U.S. border checkpoints. The case was investigated by Sergeant Stephen Dishong, Investigative Auditor Audra Ruble, and Captain Stacey Overbay of Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services. The prosecution is being handled by Assistant United States Attorney Liesel Roscher.
“To use our taxpayer-funded healthcare system as a cover for assisting illegal immigration is completely disgraceful,” said Attorney General Paxton. “As shown in this instance, exploitation of public programs for illegal alien trafficking will be met with the full force of the law.”