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Residents cite podcast account of migrant deaths in trailer during public comment
Summary
Two meeting attendees described online and podcast accounts they said showed cartel-related human-smuggling deaths at the U.S. border, including an incident in which about 30 people were found in a tractor-trailer and roughly 19 reportedly died, one a child.
Two residents raised accounts of cartel-related migrant deaths at the U.S. border during a public-comment segment of an unspecified meeting.
The commenters said they had seen online material and a podcast describing an incident in which a tractor-trailer carrying people was abandoned and dozens died. They urged that law enforcement is aware of the problem but expressed alarm at the scale and brutality the podcast recounted.
Resident 1 (Resident) said: "Also online, there's there's a lot of stuff, being talked about, just an inside attack from their cartels already here. Not just Utah, but it could be anywhere. Right. And, that to me, that's concerning, and I know law enforcement is on top of it."
Resident 2 (Resident) described a podcast account the commenter said involved “Sean Ryan and and Tom Holland” and recounted seeing scenes at the border: "I mean, he when he first went down to the border just a couple months ago, he went down there and there was a tractor trailer that had like 30 people in it. And since the cartel is gonna get caught, the driver just got out, walked away. Left him in it. Locked inside and I think it was a 28 degree weather. 20 something or 19 of them died."
Resident 2 continued with a first-person retelling from the podcast: "And the horrendous thing is the the the is there's a young child, 9 years old, that was the first to go. Wow. And he died in his father's arms, his father's covering him up. And the witnesses said the child was pleading, dad, go plea, please don't let me die. Don't let me die." The commenter concluded, "Right. And, they all passed away because of cartels."
The meeting record shows these statements were made in public comment; no formal motion, vote or direction to staff related to the topic appears in the transcript. The commenters referenced online sources and a podcast but did not provide documentary evidence or identify specific law-enforcement reports during their remarks.
Because the statements were presented as secondhand accounts and media reports rather than as government filings, the record does not document formal findings or official confirmation of the incident described.
