The son of US Congressman Allen Boyd (D-Florida) was arrested for smuggling illegal immigrants in the state of Arizona. 

The immigrants each paid $3,000 to John Boyd to be smuggled into the United States. 

From the Tampa Tribune:

According to a criminal complaint outlining the accusations, John Boyd was driving his pickup Sunday near Wilcox, Ariz., when it was stopped for inspection at a Border Patrol checkpoint.

“At the primary inspection area, a Border Patrol K-9 alerted to the possible presence of illegal aliens in the bed of the truck,” states the complaint.

The complaint states it was then that a Border Patrol agent approached the truck “and saw an individual hiding under a piece of plywood in the bed of the truck.”

Boyd was asked to turn off the engine and climb out of his truck, the complaint states. Agents found “an unaccompanied 6-year-old female juvenile in the passenger seat who was not wearing a seat belt, along with two other individuals on the floorboard behind the front seat.”

“Agents also found two more individuals hiding under the piece of plywood in the bed of the truck,” the complaint states.

“The four individuals all admitted that they were not citizens or nationals of the United States and that they did not have permission to be in the United States legally,” the complaint states.