The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office’s Safe Streets Task Force continues to make apprehensions and on Friday they nabbed a smuggler out of West Virginia.
According to the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO), on November 3, 2023 at approximately 2:45 p.m., a CCSO detective assigned to the Safe Streets Task Force attempted to stop a Volkswagen Tiguan at the intersection of E. Highway 92 and S. Kings Ranch Rd.
The Tiguan failed to yield and a multi-agency pursuit was initiated, during which speeds reached in excess of 110 m.p.h.
After the vehicle was successfully stopped on E. Hereford Rd. near S. Hall Drive, the driver, 23-year-old Logan McKenzie Casto of Cross Lanes, West Virginia, was found to be smuggling five illegal aliens.
Casto was booked into the Bisbee Detention Facility for human smuggling, unlawful flight from law enforcement, and five counts of felony endangerment.