McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Two men were charged with smuggling dozens of migrants through the Rio Grande Valley.

Brandon Lajohn Hargrove, 43, of Houston, and Jose Luis Castellanos-Hercules, 21, from Honduras, were charged with transporting migrants from Mission and Zapata in a box truck.

On Sept. 19, authorities stopped the box truck, driven by Hargrove, west of Zapata near San Ygnacio.

Hargrove told authorities he was hauling boxes of produce and opened the back of the truck.

During the interaction, authorities saw Castellanos-Hercules in the trailer and conducted a more thorough search.

While searching in the trailer, authorities found a hidden compartment that held 55 migrants from Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela, Honduras, El Salvador, China, India, Colombia, and Ecuador.

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