Abel Fernando Navas-Salazar, 19

A Texas man was charged with multiple counts of human smuggling Tuesday after Florida Highway Patrol Troopers made a traffic stop Interstate 75 and “determined the driver was transporting passengers (illegal immigrants) to Miami for financial profit.”

The stop was made at mile marker 145, which is north of the Bayshore Road exit.

Troopers arrested the driver, later identified as Abel Fernando Navas-Salazar, 19, of Pasadena, and charged him with four counts of human smuggling, no valid driver’s license, operating an unregistered vehicle and attaching license tag not assigned.

A fraudulent temporary license tag out of the state of Texas was attached to the Lincoln, FHP said in a release issued Tuesday.

The four passengers were turned over to federal agents with Homeland Security for immigration processing.

The Lincoln Navigator Navas-Salazar was driving was impounded

Navas-Salazar remained in the Lee County Jail Wednesday morning. Bond had not been set.