PICTURED: Texas Walmart worker, 28, who is accused of plotting deadliest human smuggling operation ever, which saw 53 migrants killed in back of sweltering semi-truck as it’s claimed trucker didn’t know air-con was broke

(Source: The Daily Mail)

The Texas man who was allegedly driving a truck in which 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America died in sweltering conditions did not realize that the air conditioning had stopped working. 

Homero Zamorano, Jr., 45, was arrested on Wednesday on criminal charges for his alleged involvement in a botched smuggling ring that resulted in dozens of deaths, according to the Department of Justice and the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas. 

Court documents reveal how a suspected conspirator, Christian Martinez, was in contact with Zamorano throughout, according to the Department of Justice. 

Martinez, a 28 year-old Walmart worker from San Antonio, was pictured in his mugshot for the first time on Friday.   

Martinez ‘initiated a conversation about the death of several individuals inside a tractor trailer’ and admitted to his involvement.