18-11-2024 20:15 via ocregister.com

Jury selection begins in human smuggling case after deaths of Indian family at Canada-US border

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — Nearly three years after a couple from India and their two young children froze to death while trying to cross the border from Canada into the U.S., two men went on trial Monday on human smuggling charges, accused of being part of a criminal network that stretched around the world.
Prosecutors say Indian national Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, ran part of the scheme and recruited Steve Shand, 50, of Florida, to shuttle migrants across the bord
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