Smuggling suspect arrested 2 years after a family froze to death trying to cross the U.S.-Canada border
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 27, 2024
Federal authorities arrested a man they said was involved in a human smuggling operation that resulted in two Indian migrants and their children freezing to death as they tried to illegally cross the U.S.-Canada border.
Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel was taken into custody Wednesday on human smuggling charges, court records show. He is accused of recruiting another man, Steve Anthony Shand, to drive migrants to the Chicago area after they crossed into Minnesota.
Shand was arrested on Jan. 19, 2022, near the border, about 7 miles northeast of . . .
