A man from Honduras pleaded guilty to falsely claiming to be an unaccompanied minor while trying to enter the United States.
On Thursday morning, 18-year-old Elger Fabricio Cotto Navarro went before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ignacio Torteya in Brownsville, Texas, where he pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements to a federal officer. After the hearing, Torteya ordered that Cotto Navarro be held without bond pending his sentencing hearing in June. According to information provided to Breitbart Texas by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas, Cotto Navarro could face as much as five years in prison for the charge.
The case began on February 2, when Cotto Navarro surrendered to U.S. Border Patrol agents in Roma, Texas, shortly after he
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