Supposed smuggler pulls into Hamburger King drive-thru to evade Border Patrol

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report)-- A motorist who supposedly turned into a Burger King drive-thru to prevent the U.S. Border Patrol is dealing with migrant smuggling charges in Arizona.

A federal grand jury on Wednesday charged Anthony Joseph Moncivaiz with one count of conspiracy and 2 counts of carrying unauthorized non-citizens for earnings in connection with an Oct. 19 event off U.S. Highway 92 in Bisbee.

Court records reveal a U.S. Border Patrol agent on duty in Cochise County, Ariz., observed three individuals worn camouflage technique an area 4 miles north of the border wall. The group walked towards a car on a street at the edge of the community and got in. The representative followed the automobile to Highway 92 and enjoyed the chauffeur pull into the fast-food restaurant while the guests attempted to hide themselves in the back seat.

Records reveal a number of agents showed up, performed the stop, and bought the chauffeur of the 2009 Toyota Camry to come out with his hands up. The driver, later on identified Moncivaiz, told the agents he had a gun in the car; the agents secured a Glock 9mm handgun without any signed up owner from the Toyota.

U.S. Border Patrol representatives in Bisbee, Ariz., seized a weapon throughout a migrant smuggling occasion on Oct. 19.

Border agents nabbed 3 unauthorized migrants in camouflage who became part of a larger group that came over the border wall, records show. Two of the unapproved non-citizens who paid up to $9,000 to be smuggled into the U.S. are being held as material witnesses in the case.

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In addition to the gun, border agents found a mobile phone in the Toyota. A consensual search of the device yielded maps pointing to an area understood to Border Patrol to be a pick-up point for unauthorized migrants, and images of the suspect "flaunting large quantities of money," according to court records.

Moncivaiz stood for arraignment on Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona in Tucson.