Prosecutors say accused human smugglers put profit over human life, leading to Indian family's freezing deaths
India and their two young children across the U.S.-Canada border in heavy snow and bone-chilling winds, leading to the family freezing to death​, prosecutors said Monday.
Jury seated in human smuggling case involving deaths of Indian family at Canada-US border
Federal prosecutors plan to argue at a Minnesota trial that two men were part of a criminal network stretching from India to Canada that smuggled families seeking better lives in the United States.
Attorney for one man charged in migrant family’s death on Canada-Minnesota border says he was duped
Shand and Patel were indicted in Minnesota for conspiracy to transport and bring unauthorized immigrants to the U.S., causing serious bodily injury and placing lives in jeopardy and attempted transportation and aiding and abetting transportation of aliens for commercial advantage and private financial gain.
Human smuggling trial of Florida men begins after Indian family's freezing death near Canada border
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 Central Florida men will face trial on human smuggling charges,
Federal trial begins in case related to family from India that died at Canada-U.S. border
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — A jury has been selected in a high-profile federal trial this week accusing two men of running a human smuggling operation at the U.S.-Canada border, where Manitoba, North Dakota and Minnesota meet.
'Profit ahead of people's lives': Trial begins in freezing deaths of migrant family
Jury selection got underway Monday in the trial of two men accused of smuggling migrants across the Canada-U.S. border.
Jury Selection Begins in Fergus Falls For Border Human Smuggling Case
It was a packed house at the courthouse full of people waiting for the jury selection. The case, for two men accused of being part of a criminal network that stretched around the world. Federal prosecutors say Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Shand were part of an operation that scouted clients in India arranging visas,
Prosecutors say 2 men prioritized money over human life leading to deaths of Indian family
Federal prosecutors say two men put financial profit over human life when they attempted to smuggle a couple from India and their two young children across the U.S.-Canada border in heavy snow, leadin
Jury selection begins in human smuggling case after deaths of Indian family at Canada-US border
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 have gone on trial in Minnesota on human sm
Money Over Human Lives: US Court Slams Men Accused of Smuggling Indian Family Who Froze to Death
Two men put financial profit over human life when they attempted to smuggle a couple from India and their two young children across the U.S.-Canada border in heavy snow and bone-chilling winds, leading to the family freezing to death,
Trial to begin in human smuggling case after deaths of Indian family at Canada-US border
A criminal network stretching from India to Canada made money smuggling families seeking better lives in the United States.
Survivor of deadly trip across Canada-US border expected to testify in human smuggling trial
Prosecutors allege Indian national Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, and 50-year-old Steve Shand put financial profit over human ...
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Blizzard conditions met migrants at Manitoba-Minnesota border crossing, trial hears
Witnesses have testified about brutal cold along the border between Manitoba and Minnesota, where a family from India froze ...
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Photos of Indian family who froze to death crossing U.S.-Canadian border at issue in human smuggling trial
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Two men, Harshkumar Patel and Steve Shand, face numerous ...
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Opening statements delivered in federal human smuggling trial in northern Minnesota
The family froze to death in a snowstorm in January 2022 after getting separated from a larger group trying to cross ...
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Trial underway for deadly Canadian border smuggling scheme
Jury selection started Monday. Harshkumar Patel, 29, an Indian national, and Steve Shand, 50, of Florida, are both facing ...