BREAKING: A Guatemalan illegal alien who has been living in the sanctuary city of Los Angeles has been arrested & indicted by DOJ for allegedly running one of the largest human smuggling orgs in the U.S., a ring that smuggled roughly 20,000 illegal aliens from Guatemala into the U.S. over a 5 year span from 2019 through 2024.

Feds say some were held hostage in stash houses, and seven illegal immigrants, including a 4-year-old child, were killed in a human smuggling related car crash in Oklahoma in 2023.

DOJ says 51-year-old Eduardo Domingo Renoj-Matu, aka “Turko”, had been living in the Westlake neighborhood near downtown LA. He and his organization allegedly charged illegal aliens roughly between $15,000 and $18,000 per person to be brought into the U.S. illegally, with a majority of their trafficking taking place between Los Angeles and Phoenix.

A federal magistrate has ordered him to be held without bond.

A co-defendant, also an illegal alien from Guatemala, has also been charged by DOJ after he allegedly threatened to behead a HSI agent and his family while a search warrant was being conducted at his home on Friday.

Several other Guatemalan illegal aliens were also arrested and charged by the Feds, all of whom had been living in the sanctuary city of LA.

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Mayor Karen Bass: "No one should live in fear due to their immigration status.

Los Angeles is a City of immigrants and we will continue to stand together."