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Former Trucking Business Co-owner Charged with $9 Million Fraud

admin — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:58:51 +0000

Francis Hall is a former co-owner of Bill Hall Jr. Trucking. A warrant was issued for her arrest on June 30, 2022 following an indictment for fraud. She turned herself in this week.

Texas Department of Insurance fraud investigators found that between 2009 and 2016, Hall allegedly filed false payroll numbers to avoid over nine million dollars in additional insurance premiums.

If convicted, Hall is facing up to life in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.

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Cloned Trucks

admin — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 15:08:19 +0000

According to a federal agency, roughly 75 trucks are reported as clones each year. They’re painted to match and have the cloned truck’s federal ID numbers put on the door. This activity is used by smugglers as in the recent case in San Antonio where 53 migrants died inside the tractor-trailer of a cloned truck. According to Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, cloning allows these cloned trucks to get through border inspections. To cut down on this, McCraw stated there there will be checkpoints at unnamed ports of entry.

John Esparza, president and CEO of the Texas Trucking Association, said, “How would you even know your truck was being cloned unless something bad happened? They can confirm the number that are caught, but there’s no way to confirm how many are out there.”

Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, stated, DPS “will create and implement a checkpoint strategy beginning immediately where they will begin targeting trucks like the one that was used where these people perished.”

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Houston Truck Driver Facing Charges

admin — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 15:35:23 +0000

Houston driver, Anthony Alfred Boring, was stopped at a border patrol checkpoint in April.

He told the border patrolman that he didn’t know what he was transporting. When the trailer was opened, the patrolman found 145 individuals from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Ecuador inside. The trailer was hot with no water and crammed with people. One Guatemalan migrant told investigators, “It was hot like fire. We couldn’t breathe. We were going to die.”

If convicted, Boring is looking at up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.

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