A leading Latino advocacy group is stepping up its efforts to find a woman — identified by the news media this week — who allegedly lured a group of migrants onto a plane flying from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard last month.
The League of United Latin American Citizens on Wednesday doubled to $10,000 a reward it is offering for information that leads to locating, arresting and prosecuting 43-year-old Perla Haydee Huerta, who was identified Sunday in a New York Times report. Authorities have not publicly identified her as a suspect or person of interest in any criminal investigation.
At least two private planes left San Antonio last month, one of them with as many as 48 migrants who had been told they were getting a trip to Boston, where jobs and shelter awaited them. Instead, the group arrived at Martha’s Vineyard, an island south of Cape Cod, where the group’s arrival surprised local officials and residents.
