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Data update: Laredo TX PD (Jan 2026)

5,274 org audit records from Laredo TX PD covering January 2026.

by HaveIBeenFlocked Team
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Laredo TX PD audit records for January 2026 were added to haveibeenflocked.com. Laredo is a city of roughly 260,000 on the Rio Grande in Webb County, Texas, directly across the border from Nuevo Laredo, Coahuila. It is one of the busiest land ports of entry on the US-Mexico border.

  • Type: Organization audit
  • Timespan: Jan 1 – Jan 31, 2026 (1 month)
  • Records: 5,274
  • Search types: lookup (3,909), search (1,054), freeform (281), visual (26), convoy (3)
  • License plate attached: 3,932 (74.6%)
  • Case # present: 3,268 (62.0%)

#Search types

TypeCount%
lookup3,90974.1%
search1,05420.0%
freeform2815.3%
visual260.5%
convoy3<0.1%
searchSummary1<0.1%

Freeform searches — AI text prompt queries — account for 5.3% of the total, above the typical rate for smaller agencies. Freeform reasons follow the same pattern as the overall dataset: vehicle theft investigations and burglary suspect queries dominate.

#Top operators

OperatorCount%
Juan Iruegas1,00019.0%
Clarissa Gaytan69913.3%
Hector A. Flores3606.8%
Violeta Cavazos2745.2%
Stephanie Castaneda2665.0%
Marissa Ramirez2204.2%
Rene Mejia1643.1%
Angel Guerrero1613.1%
Cindy Estrada1522.9%
Joseph Uribe1442.7%

The top two operators account for 32.3% of all searches between them. Juan Iruegas ran 1,000 searches in a single month — an average of more than 32 per day.

#Reasons

ReasonCount%
Drugs/Narcotics1,12721.4%
Motor Vehicle Theft/Stolen87016.5%
Assault/Battery Offenses73513.9%
Hit and Run/Car Accident5049.6%
Weapons Offense3957.5%
Wanted Person/Warrant2985.7%
Stolen Property2274.3%
Burglary/Breaking & Entering1903.6%
Welfare Check1342.5%
Larceny/Theft1202.3%
Criminal Motor Vehicle701.3%
Human Trafficking531.0%
Gambling470.9%
Stalking460.9%
Immigration380.7%
Other4208.0%

#Report highlights

#Immigration

38 records carry explicit immigration reasons — 27 tagged “Immigration (criminal)” and 11 “Immigration (civil/administrative)”. Two additional records list “Human Smuggling”. Given Laredo’s location as a major border crossing, ALPR data from this agency is of particular interest for immigration enforcement analysis.

#Human Trafficking

53 records cite human trafficking as the reason for the search.