A 16-year-old faces human smuggling charges after a chase in Webb County. The teen ran from Texas state troopers. Then he hid in thick brush. A police dog found him.

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) said the chase happened on August 25. It took place on Wormser Road.

DPS shared video of the arrest. In it, an officer tells the teen to get on the ground.

Here is what DPS said happened.

A trooper tried to pull over a white pickup truck on Wormser Road. The truck was a Dodge. The driver did not stop at first. Troopers chased the truck.

The truck finally stopped. The driver got out and ran. Several people from the truck ran too. They ran onto a private ranch nearby.

A DPS K-9 team tracked the driver for nearly a mile. The team found the teen hiding in thick brush.

With help from Border Patrol, troopers rounded up six more people nearby. They had been riding in the truck. Agents said all six were in the country illegally.

The teen now faces two charges. One is human smuggling. The other is evading arrest. That means running from cops who are trying to stop you.

He was booked into the Webb County Youth Village. That is where the county holds young people charged with crimes.

El Tejano is not naming the teen because he is 16. His name has not been made public. No bond amount or court date has been made public either.

This is not the first time this year a teen was caught in a smuggling chase in the area.

In June, Border Patrol agents said a teen drove off during a traffic stop. That chase ended in Encinal. Agents put down a tire deflation device. The device shredded the tires. The pickup ground to a stop on bare rims.

Agents found seven people inside. They said all seven were in the country illegally. That teen faced state human smuggling charges.

DPS has warned about this before. In July 2023, a 14-year-old led troopers on a chase on U.S. 83 in Webb County. DPS said the boy was tricked into helping smuggle four migrants.

After that case, DPS said smuggling groups use social media to recruit kids. The agency told parents to watch their children's accounts. DPS also urged parents to "make them aware of the detrimental consequences of human smuggling."

DPS has not said how the 16-year-old in the August chase got involved. It has not said if anyone recruited him online.

Everyone is presumed innocent until proved otherwise.