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The Bexar County Sheriff's Office says it has completed its investigation into the transport of 49 migrants from San Antonio to Martha's Vineyard last September by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration and filed criminal charges with the local district attorney.
A statement from the sheriff's office says it has filed several counts of unlawful restraint, both misdemeanors and felonies. The sheriff's office didn't name any individual suspects and didn't specify when the investigation was turned over to the Bexar County district attorney.
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According to a lawsuit filed by a law firm representing some of the migrants, Perla Huerta, a former combat medic and counterintelligence agent in the U.S. Army,
gave $10 McDonald's gift cards to about 50 migrants in San Antonio last year
in exchange for a signed consent form to board a flight to Massachusetts. Inside the charter plane, the migrants, many of whom were Venezuelans,
were given a brochure with a list of organizations that provide social services the migrants were NOT eligible for, according to the lawsuit.
The next day at a news conference, DeSantis claimed credit for sending the planes from Texas to Massachusetts. He has said that it was part of the state's program to relocate migrants to a 'sanctuary destination.' The Florida Legislature set aside $12 million for the effort, and DeSantis has spent more than $1.5 million so far on the flights, according to state records.
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