Opinion ID: 805819
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Heading: Evidence Pertaining to Rosalinda

Text: A co-conspirator named Mary Jo Rodriguez (“Rodriguez”)—one of Rosalinda’s cousins—testified that Rosalinda instructed her to pick up three illegal aliens in Uvalde, Texas and drop them off at an agreed-upon residence. Rosalinda was present when Rodriguez dropped off the illegal aliens. Another co-conspirator testified that on a different occasion, after she dropped illegal 2 Case: 10-50970 Document: 00511942697 Page: 3 Date Filed: 08/02/2012 No. 10-50970 aliens off at the same house and was paid, she saw the illegal aliens get in the car with Rosalinda. Pablo Aviles (“Aviles”)—who was working for the Government in exchange for receiving a temporary visa and, on at least one occasion, payment—testified that Rosalinda was employed as a scout for Appellants’ alien smuggling group and that he employed her in May 2007. Aviles worked for Garcia-Duarte and Garcia-Duarte’s brother, Leodegardo,2 transporting illegal aliens. A scout acts as a lookout and helps the person driving the illegal aliens to avoid law enforcement. An investigator for the Government testified that Rosalinda received total payments of $7,030 through Western Union, and these payments were made from offices clustered around Garcia-Duarte’s apartment complex in Houston. The payments were each below the threshold amount that would require the payor to show identification. When a Government agent attempted to track the payor by matching the name to the address given, he found that no one by that name lived at that address.