Enrique Rodriguez drove at speeds exceeding 100 mph in an attempt to escape deputies and narrowly avoided multiple collisions, including with oncoming law enforcement vehicles.
Enrique Rodriguez, 21, fled in a pickup truck during an attempted traffic stop by a Dimmit County Sheriff’s deputy in May 2020, according to aRodriguez drove at speeds exceeding 100 mph in the northbound lanes of U.S. Highway 83 in an attempt to escape deputies and narrowly avoided multiple collisions, including with oncoming law enforcement vehicles.
Responding deputies and U.S. Border Patrol agents reported that the six victims “suffered serious injuries, including likely head trauma, broken legs, severe neck injuries, loss of upward mobility and loss of consciousness.”“His smuggling victims are very fortunate they survived. These smuggling attempts pose a very serious threat, not only to those directly involved, but to innocent civilians and our partners as well,” said U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza of the Western District of Texas.
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