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Lawful permanent resident arrested for attempting to smuggle drugged child across Southern Border
A U.S. lawful permanent resident was arrested on Wednesday after she allegedly attempted to smuggle a drugged child into the country through the Southern Border using a fake birth certificate, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Gloria Lopez-Corona, 24, from Mexico, attempted to enter the U.S. with a five-year-old boy through the San Luis port of entry in Arizona, where she presented a birth certificate that was revealed to be for a different child based on the age, as the birth certificate was for a two-year-old.
The child was determined to be an unaccompanied child from Mexico who was sedated. The child had been given melatonin gummies and was sleepy and disoriented. Homeland Security Investigations seized the items believed to have been used to drug the child.
ICE FILES DETAINERS AGAINST 2 ILLEGAL ALIENS, INCLUDING 1 FACING ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGES FOR SHOOTING SPREE
Gloria Lopez-Corona, 24, faces charges of Alien Smuggling. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
Lopez-Corona later admitted she was not the child’s mother and that the birth certificate was fake. Lopez-Corona said she was the mother to a two-year-old back home in Mexico. Immigration officials found the drugged five-year-old child’s mother, Reyna Cecilia Hernandez Reyes.
Lopez-Corona claimed she was forced to smuggle the child into the U.S. by a person who threatened her family and that she did not contact police because “she did not trust the police in Mexico,” according to the New York Post. She said she was told to drive to a location where the child was placed into a car seat in her back seat by an unnamed individual. The woman said she was offered $1,500 to transport the child but turned the money down.
The child was determined to be an unaccompanied child from Mexico who was sedated. (Bryan Cox/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Getty Images)
The child at one point told agents “that he was given gummies by his mother,” according to the outlet.
Reyes, a Mexican citizen, admitted to giving her child to an unknown woman to be smuggled into the U.S. Reyes, who the child was returned to, was charged in connection with the attempted smuggling.
The plan was to have the child taken to Reyes’ husband in Los Angeles, according to the New York Post. The man was smuggled into the country three years ago. Federal agents later found that he was deported three times before his last entry.
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The child’s mother admitted to giving him to an unknown woman to be smuggled into the U.S. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
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Lopez-Corona, who was arrested by Homeland Security Investigations, faces charges for Alien Smuggling.
“This depraved individual drugged an innocent child and trafficked them into our country,” Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to Fox News. “Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, DHS will protect children and stop the traffickers and smugglers that exploit children.”
Fox News’ Bill Melugin contributed to this report.
OU baseball coach Skip Johnson, Sooners ‘never stopped believing’ on CWS journey
Skip Johnson’s OU baseball team defeated Georgia 11-4 Wednesday night to advance to the College World Series finals. Freshman pitcher Nick Wesloski allowed only one earned run in 5 ⅔ innings in just his second career start.
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North Carolina forced a winner-take-all Game 3 at the College World Series after taking down Oklahoma 6-2 on Sunday, June 21, after the Sooners took the opening game, 9-3.
Now, who will win the national championship?
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Tar Heels head coach Scott Forbes said everyone is available to pitch on Monday, June 22, potentially even star reliever Caden Glauber, who tossed five scoreless innings of relief in Game 2 with eight strikeouts to one hit. While North Carolina hasn’t decided on a starting pitcher yet, Oklahoma will turn to true freshman right-hander Nick Wesloski (2-1, 3.63 ERA).
Oklahoma’s bats were silenced by UNC starter Ryan Lynch and Glauber. The Sooners were held to four hits in Game 2 after their 14-hit barrage on June 20. The loss snapped Oklahoma’s 9-game win streak dating back to its first loss against No. 2 Georgia Tech in the Atlanta Regional.
North Carolina, meanwhile, continued its unbeaten streak after a loss, avoiding back-to-back defeats since the Tar Heels’ March 6-7 losses against Virginia to open ACC play.
Here’s how to watch Oklahoma vs. North Carolina for all the marbles on Monday, June 22:
What TV channel is Oklahoma vs North Carolina on today?
Game 3 of Oklahoma-North Carolina will air live on ESPN, with streaming options on the ESPN app or Fubo, which offers a free trial.
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Oklahoma vs North Carolina time today
- Date: Monday, June 22
- Time: 7 p.m. ET | 6 p.m. CT
- Location: Charles Schwab Field Omaha (Omaha, Nebraska)
Oklahoma vs North Carolina predictions, picks, odds
Odds from BetMGM as of Monday, June 22
- Spread: North Carolina (-1.5)
- Over/under: 10.5 runs
- Moneyline: North Carolina (-160) | Oklahoma (+125)
- Prediction: Oklahoma 7, North Carolina 5
Oklahoma rebounds from its Game 2 loss and takes down North Carolina, with pitchers Nick Wesloski, Jackson Cleveland and LJ Mercurius all appearing. The Tar Heels throw the kitchen sink in Game 3, but ultimately the Sooners come out on top, capping off one of the most impressive runs in recent memory. — Austin Curtright
COLUMBIA — Shane Beamer made things clear to his future wife from the moment they started dating.
When it comes to coaching, it’s not a matter of if Beamer gets fired but when. A results-based industry with high expectations means no job is fully safe. That concrete understanding has carried the couple.
Now 20 years into Shane and Emily Beamer’s marriage, it’s more prevalent than ever as the temperature on his seat at South Carolina football has increased.
“I get it, I coach at a place where there’s a lot of passion for Gamecock football, and people expect a winner,” Beamer told The Greenville News. “And when you have a 4-8 season, when there’s so many expectations, like we had last season, you open yourself up to criticism and hot seat talk and all that, but doesn’t change the way that I do my job.”
Beamer’s record after five years is 33-30 heading into the 2026 opener on Sept. 5 vs Kent State.
In two of his five seasons, he’s posted losing records but sandwiched in between was his career-best. After going 5-7 in 2023, the Gamecocks were 9-4 the following season.
That, combined with the return of quarterback LaNorris Sellers heightened expectations last summer, earning South Carolina a preseason No. 13 ranking. The Gamecocks jumped to No. 10 but after Week 4 fell out of the Top 25 for the remainder of the season.
“If I sit around reading social media about hot seat talk, and any of that stuff, that’s not helping me do my job to the best of my ability, because none of that stuff matters,” Beamer said. “What matters is going and winning football games.”
Only one team finished behind South Carolina in the SEC, but Beamer wasn’t among the five coaches in the conference who were fired during or after the 2025 season. Ahead of the 28-14 loss to Clemson to end the season, athletic director Jeremiah Donati confirmed Beamer would return for 2026.
“I don’t pay a lot of attention to it. That’s life in this profession, particularly in the SEC,” Beamer said. “You have a really good season, you’re not on the hot seat, you have a bad season, you’re gonna go in the hot seat. Focus on what you can control, and keep trying to do your job at a high level.”
Beamer’s worst season was Donati’s first, after he took over for former AD Ray Tanner, who hired Beamer, in early 2025. Beamer said he’s in constant communication with Donati and the athletic administration.
“All of our conversations are ‘What do you need to be successful?’” Beamer said. “There’s so much else besides the coaching aspect of it, and that’s only increased really since I became the head coach, and it’s certainly that way even more so now, but those guys understand the big picture and have been nothing but supportive and super helpful in everything that we’re trying to do.”
What said Shane Beamer said about ‘low moments’ of 2025
Beamer has had his fair share of quiet Saturday nights.
He remembers walking out to his back porch after the 27-3 loss to Ole Miss two seasons ago and just shutting the sliding doors. He could see his friends and family inside, but he said it felt like two different worlds separated by the door, as he just tried to wrap his head around the fresh loss.
The 2025 season was a series of those confusing yet silent nights.
“There were a lot of low moments,” Beamer said. “They were all low. Don’t get me wrong, I mean it was a challenging year.”
Details and memories don’t often leave Beamer’s mind, so even in what felt like never-ending struggles, moments still stick out. Top of that list was the LSU game on Oct. 11.
“You hear all this about Baton Rouge at night, we went down there and played well enough to win on defense and special teams, but just couldn’t get anything done offensively,” Beamer said of the 20-10 loss. “To squander an opportunity like that, where you’re good enough to win a game on the road against a really good team … that was hard.”
Beamer went 13-5 in November his first four seasons, coining the “November to remember” mantra, but that wasn’t the case in 2025 as the Gamecocks lost three of their last four.
“Certainly Texas A&M is one I’ll never get over,” Beamer said of the 31-30 loss. “Blowing the 30-point lead (South Carolina led 30-3), that’s one thing, but for me it was just the way that we played in the second half. The opportunities that we missed because of plays we didn’t make that were there to be made or mistakes that we made … that was just a lot for a lot of reason.”
What Shane Beamer learned about himself in 2025
Not even 24 hours after the Gamecocks returned from Baton Rouge, Beamer fired offensive line coach Lonnie Teasley.
The day after the 30-14 loss to Ole Miss on Nov. 1, he fired offensive coordinator Mike Shula.
In early December, he fired running backs coach Marquel Blackwell.
He hired Kendal Briles (OC), Stan Drayton (RB) and Randy Clements (OL) in mid-December, then hired Matthew Smiley as special teams coordinator when Joe DeCamillis took an NFL job in February.
Beamer prides himself on care and relationships and didn’t have much firing to do in his first four seasons. When asked to reflect on what he learned about himself during the struggles, it centered around having to make painful decisions in ways he hadn’t before.
“Not that anybody questioned my ability to make the hard decisions, maybe they did, I don’t know, but I think it showed people in this program, ‘OK he cares about these guys, but he also is going to do what’s best for the program’ and that was pretty powerful,” Beamer said.
Lulu Kesin covers South Carolina athletics for The Greenville News and the USA TODAY Network. Email her at LKesin@usatodayco.com. Follow her on X@Lulukesin and Bluesky@bylulukesin.bsky.social
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