A federal judge has denied bond for two Brownsville men accused of smuggling four children at Boca Chica Beach.
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested 37-year-old Ector Chavez and 36-year-old Israel Lucio, Jr. last Tuesday.
Court records revealed that Chavez drove through a Border Patrol checkpoint on Highway 4 with four children.
Chavez claimed two of the children were his and the other two belonged to his sister-in-law.
But authorities learned all four of them were illegal immigrants who had been crossed from Mexico at Boca Chica Beach.
Border Patrol agents arrested Lucio after learning he smuggled the children across the Rio Grande River.
Both men appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Morgan on Tuesday afternoon where they were both denied bond.
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