Lawful permanent resident arrested for attempting to smuggle drugged child across Southern Border

A U.S. lawful imperishable nonmigratory was arrested connected Wednesday aft she allegedly attempted to smuggle a drugged kid into the state done the Southern Border utilizing a fake commencement certificate, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Gloria Lopez-Corona, 24, from Mexico, attempted to participate the U.S. with a five-year-old lad done the San Luis larboard of introduction successful Arizona, wherever she presented a commencement certificate that was revealed to beryllium for a antithetic kid based connected the age, arsenic the commencement certificate was for a two-year-old.

The kid was determined to beryllium an unaccompanied kid from Mexico who was sedated. The kid had been fixed melatonin gummies and was sleepy and disoriented. Homeland Security Investigations seized the items believed to person been utilized to cause the child.

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Gloria Lopez-Corona, 24, faces charges of Alien Smuggling. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

Lopez-Corona aboriginal admitted she was not the child's parent and that the commencement certificate was fake. Lopez-Corona said she was the parent to a two-year-old backmost location successful Mexico. Immigration officials recovered the drugged five-year-old child's mother, Reyna Cecilia Hernandez Reyes.

Lopez-Corona claimed she was forced to smuggle the kid into the U.S. by a idiosyncratic who threatened her household and that she did not interaction constabulary due to the fact that "she did not spot the constabulary successful Mexico," according to the New York Post. She said she was told to thrust to a determination wherever the kid was placed into a car spot successful her backmost spot by an unnamed individual. The pistillate said she was offered $1,500 to transport the kid but turned the wealth down.

The kid was determined to beryllium an unaccompanied kid from Mexico who was sedated. (Bryan Cox/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Getty Images)

The kid astatine 1 constituent told agents "that helium was fixed gummies by his mother," according to the outlet.

Reyes, a Mexican citizen, admitted to giving her kid to an chartless pistillate to beryllium smuggled into the U.S. Reyes, who the kid was returned to, was charged successful transportation with the attempted smuggling.

The program was to person the kid taken to Reyes' hubby successful Los Angeles, according to the New York Post. The antheral was smuggled into the state 3 years ago. Federal agents aboriginal recovered that helium was deported 3 times earlier his past entry.

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The child's parent admitted to giving him to an chartless pistillate to beryllium smuggled into the U.S. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

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Lopez-Corona, who was arrested by Homeland Security Investigations, faces charges for Alien Smuggling.

"This depraved idiosyncratic drugged an guiltless kid and trafficked them into our country," Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said successful a connection to Fox News. "Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, DHS volition support children and halt the traffickers and smugglers that exploit children."

Fox News' Bill Melugin contributed to this report.