VICTORIA POLICE AND SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES WERE OUT MONITORING THE ROADWAYS WHILE ON OPERATION BORDER STAR DUTY WHEN A VICTORIA POLICE OFFICER NOTICED SEVERAL SUBJECTS LAYING IN THE BACK OF A PICK UP TRUCK JUST GOING UNDER AN OVERPASS.

    
     THAT MANY PEOPLE BEING TRANSPORTED IN A PICK UP TRUCK WAS SUSPICIOUS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT SO THEY FOLLOWED THE TRUCK - WHICH WAS LATER PULLED OVER FOR A LANE VIOLATION.

    
     AS SOON AS THE VEHICLE STOPPED, DOZENS OF PEOPLE STARTED POURING OUT AND RAN ACROSS HIGHWAY 59 IN TO THE DARK.

"What's bad about that is that someone could have been hurt running, we had a bunch running through four lanes of traffic, some one could have been injured or killed, and that's the last thing we want." Sgt. Phillip Barron, of the Victoria Police Department said.

     
    BUT NOT ALL WHO BAILED, GOT AWAY. IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE SIX WERE IN CUSTODY.
    
     BUT OFFICIALS ESTIMATED THAT OVER TWO DOZEN MORE DISPERESED ON BOTH THE NORTH AND SOUTHBOUND SIDE OF 59.

    
     THOSE CAPTURED BY AUTHORITIES WERE TAKEN BACK TO THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, CHECKED OUT, GIVEN FOOD AND WATER AND INTERVIEWED.

    
     THOSE ILLEGAL IMIIGRANTS WERE THEN PROCESSED AND TURNED OVER TO I-N-S.

      VICTORIA COUNTY SHERIFF T. MICHAEL O'CONNOR SAID THAT POLICE AND DEPUTIES FOCUSED ON CAPTURING THE HUMAN TRAFFICKER, SINCE THAT PERSON IS RESPONSIBLE FOR TRANSPORTING THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

      WHEN THEY SEARCH EXPIRED, THE TRAFFICKER HAD NOT BEEN FOUND.