US: Human smuggling leader at Canadian border in custody

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A man who federal prosecutors say led a human smuggling organization on the U.S.-Canadian border for five years is in custody and facing charges.
Sixty-year-old Godofredo Rivas-Melendez has pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Burlington, Vermont, and was ordered held Monday pending trial.
Rivas is a Canadian citizen who was born in El Salvador. Court documents show he was deported from Canada and taken into custody Oct. 1 in Champlain, New York.
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