Pilot gets six months for smuggling Chinese immigrants
{{date|May 12, 2005}}

Christian Delgado Gomez, a [[w:San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]] pilot, was sentenced to six months and forced to pay a $500 fine for smuggling four undocumented Chinese immigrants. 

The incident occurred on January 24, 2005, when Delgado was arrested at Stinson Municipal Airport in San Antonio where he landed a small aircraft he used to transport the illegal immigrants from Eagle Pass, Texas. The officers who arrested him were acting on a tip that two planes, one from Laredo and another from Eagle Pass, would be carrying illicit cargo. This coincided with a false tip that the cargo would be in coordination with a terrorist act in Boston. 

The Chinese immigrants were deported.

==Sources==
*{{source|url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA051105.pilot.en.26533ce2b.html
|title=Pilot gets six months in prison for smuggling incident
|author=Guillermo Contreras
|pub=MySA.com
|date=May 11, 2005}}

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Christian Delgado Gomez, a San Antonio pilot, was sentenced to six months and forced to pay a $500 fine for smuggling four undocumented Chinese immigrants. 

The incident occurred on January 24, 2005, when Delgado was arrested at Stinson Municipal Airport in San Antonio where he landed a small aircraft he used to transport the illegal immigrants from Eagle Pass, Texas. The officers who arrested him were acting on a tip that two planes, one from Laredo and another from Eagle Pass, would be carrying illicit cargo. This coincided with a false tip that the cargo would be in coordination with a terrorist act in Boston. 

The Chinese immigrants were deported.
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