New Charges Filed in Temecula Chase : Immigration: A San Ysidro man has been charged with smuggling, and officials say the sixth death in the case will be added to the murder charges against the teen-age driver.

A 23-year-old San Ysidro man was arraigned in Los Angeles federal court Monday on felony charges of smuggling aliens in connection with the U.S. Border Patrol chase that killed four students and a parent last Tuesday in Temecula.

The toll from the crash grew to six with the death Sunday at Riverside General Hospital of a 16-year-old occupant of the smuggling vehicle, and prosecutors now say they will add that death to the murder charges against the driver of the car, also 16.

The Riverside County coroner’s office said the newest victim remains unidentified.

The man accused of smuggling was identified by federal authorities as Eddie Uriquiza Rodriguez, who was ordered held without bail by U.S. Magistrate Rupert Groh Jr. in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

Rodriguez and two witnesses against him were transferred Monday morning from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego to the Los Angeles courthouse, where the case will be heard.

Rodriguez, whom U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service authorities in San Diego say has been arrested in the past under a different name, faces a maximum sentence of five years on each conviction of alien smuggling, Assistant U.S. Atty. Steve Arkow said.

Two of the vehicle’s occupants told investigators that they paid $250 each to be smuggled from the San Diego border community of San Ysidro, according to an affidavit filed by INS special agent Anthony Ramirez.

Ramirez said INS Agent John Chacon was conducting a surveillance of suspected smuggling activities last Tuesday morning when he saw a group of people run from a brushy area to the parking lot of the Frontier Motel in San Ysidro, where they met another man.

Shortly afterward, a Chevrolet Suburban pulled up and the group piled in.

Chacon said he followed the truck north on Interstate 5, and that it stopped for gasoline in San Diego, where Rodriguez, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, paid the bill.

The vehicle then headed north on Interstate 805 and then Interstate 15 to Temecula, where it exited at Rancho California Road and sped away while being “observed by Border Patrol units which then began to follow the Suburban through the city of Temecula,” according to the affidavit in support of the charges filed against Rodriguez.

The affidavit offers no details of the crash itself, except to note that the truck “was involved in a collision with a sedan. Three of the sedan’s occupants and two pedestrians were killed.”

On Sunday, two of the truck’s occupants--Celso Rodriguez-Torales and Rodolfo Pineda-Ontanon--told INS agents that, during the drive north, Rodriguez gave directions to the teen-age driver and was the one who ordered the passengers to lie low so they wouldn’t be spotted.

Rodriguez’s alleged leadership role, along with the fact that he paid for the gasoline, was enough evidence to charge him with smuggling, federal authorities said.

The driver of the stolen vehicle has already been charged with five counts of murder and will now be charged with a sixth with Sunday’s death, Riverside County Supervising Dist. Atty. Craig Datig said.

The teen-ager, identified by authorities as one of the smuggled aliens who was pressed into the driver’s role, is already charged with the deaths of John Davis, 46; his son, Todd Davis, 18, and family friend Monisa Emilio, 14, all of whom were in the Davis vehicle. He is also charged with the deaths of a brother and sister who were walking to nearby Temecula Valley High School: Gloria Murillo, 17, and Jose Murillo, 16.

INS spokesman Rudy Murillo in San Diego said investigators are also considering another of the Suburban’s occupants, Alfredo Flores Talonia, 27, of Mexico, as a smuggling suspect.

So far, only the driver--unidentified because of his age--and Rodriguez have been charged. Talonia and four other people are being held as material witnesses. The four other occupants of the car who survived the crash are still being treated for their injuries at Riverside General Hospital.