Texas Troopers Busted a Hotel Stash House in Eagle Pass and Found Something That Should Terrify Every American

Texas DPS troopers just tore open a smuggling operation hiding inside a hotel room in Eagle Pass.

Four illegal aliens were buried under blankets – and two of them were something nobody expected.

What they found hiding in that room is the reason Trump's border crackdown can never stop.

Gang Members From Honduras Were Already Here Before

Two of the men cowering under those hotel room blankets were confirmed members of the Rollin' 30s Crips.

Joseph Angel Gusman and Daniel Castillo Dionisio – both 21-year-old Honduran nationals – didn't stumble across the border once.

CBP had flagged both of them previously, deeming them inadmissible with documented records of illegal re-entry.

They had been caught, processed, and kicked out before.

They came back anyway.

And it gets worse.

Dionisio wasn't just a gang member hiding in Eagle Pass – he was a wanted fugitive.

The New Orleans Police Department had active felony warrants out for him on armed robbery and aggravated assault charges involving a firearm.

He wasn't hiding in Texas because he wanted a better life.

He was hiding in Texas because New Orleans was looking for him.

Two American Women Were Running the Operation

The room wasn't rented by cartel muscle from across the border.

Juella Monet Brown, 27, of Grandview, Missouri, and Starr Ricki Drake, 26, of Euless, Texas, were running the stash house.

Two American women – one from Missouri, one from inside Texas itself – operating as the ground infrastructure for a transnational smuggling network.

Operation Lone Star Is the Only Thing Standing Between Them and Your City

This bust didn't happen by accident.

Someone called the Texas Stash House Rewards Program – which pays citizens up to $5,000 for tips on smuggling operations – and Texas DPS troopers responded in the middle of the night.

That's Operation Lone Star doing exactly what Greg Abbott built it to do.

Since the program launched five years ago, OLS has identified 668 stash houses and recovered more than 8,700 people from them.

More than 51,300 criminal arrests. More than 43,800 felony charges.

And that's with border crossings down over 95% under Trump.

The cartels didn't stop when Trump secured the border – they adapted.

The cartels figured out Trump's border crackdown fast.

They stopped sending people across open terrain where cameras catch them.

Instead they're recruiting American women from Missouri and Texas to book hotel rooms, sign their names to the front desk, and babysit fugitives wanted for armed robbery while the cartels collect their fee.

That's not desperation. That's adaptation.

The Eagle Pass bust – a gang member wanted for armed robbery in New Orleans, hiding under blankets in a Texas hotel room – is what that adaptation looks like up close.

Dionisio who slipped through before and came back wasn't trying to cross into a new life.

He was already embedded in a network that stretches from Honduras to Eagle Pass to New Orleans – and every city in between is a waypoint.

One phone call and a trooper who smelled marijuana through a hotel door stopped him this time.

Your city's luck depends on how many more calls get made.

Sources:

• Randy Clark, "Human Smuggling Stash House Busted, Illegal Alien Fugitive Arrested," Breitbart, June 5, 2026.
• "DPS Uncovers Stash House, Captures Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrant Gang Member," Texas Border Business, June 5, 2026.
• "Texas OLS Finding Stash Houses, Arresting Gang Members, Smugglers," The Center Square, June 1, 2026.
• "Exclusive: 5-Year Anniversary of Operation Lone Star, Nearly 540,000 Apprehended," The Black Chronicle, March 25, 2026.
• "Operation Lone Star Seizes Over Six Million Dollars' Worth of Cocaine," Office of the Texas Governor, March 14, 2025.