are luring them in with fast cash, promising they re going to get off if they get caught but what the sales pitch doesn t mention is what the cartels will do if the teen smugglers botch the job. kris gutierrez is in el paso with this extraordinary story. kris. reporter: jen yark the bottom line is american teenagers know they can make a couple hundred bucks by carrying a bagful of dope from war eds on the other side of the river into el paso here. they think it s easy money but authorities say it s extremely dangerous. an american teenager was busted while trying to smuggle this load of marijuana into the u.s. from mexico. authorities say the young man driving this truck was recruited by a mexican drug cartel. they ll tell them look, you re a juvenile, you re not going to go to jail, nothing is going to happen to you. over the past ten years, 476 juveniles have been caught with drugs at a point of entry in el paso county, 302 of them were u.s.