Serrano said the man was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement who is now handling the case.
The 56-year-old man, whose name was not released, was driving back into the country through the port of entry in Nogales.
The woman inside the suitcase, a Thai woman identified as Pornkamol Mongkolsermsak, had been "denied admission, excluded, deported, and removed from the United States" through Los Angeles just 10 days earlier, according to the federal court documents, New-Times reports
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