Registered sex offender from Alaska sentenced to probation after paying to smuggle Honduran family
· KRGV (NBC 5)
Douglas Price, a registered sex offender from Alaska, was sentenced to three years of probation in McAllen for paying $5,000 to smugglers to illegally bring a Honduran woman and her daughter into the U.S. The daughter, aged 14 or 15, was apprehended by Border Patrol in Hidalgo in January 2026 after crossing the Rio Grande alone. Price had pleaded guilty to charges of bringing in and harboring undocumented individuals. The mother, who had known Price for four years, claimed he would sponsor her and help her gain citizenship. Investigators confirmed money transfers from Price's business, Black Bear Construction.
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