By The Staff The Canadian Press
Posted November 19, 2024 8:33 am
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Illegal borderline crossings stay an issue
Law enforcement officers are expected to attest arsenic the trial continues for 2 men accused of quality smuggling astatine the Canada-US border.
Steve Shand and Harshkumar Patel are accused of being portion of a ringing that flew Indian nationals to Canada, past had them locomotion crossed the borderline between Manitoba and Minnesota.
Shand was arrested the aforesaid nighttime a household of 4 from India was recovered frozen to death, metres from the border, successful a -36 windchill.
Shand’s lawyer says Shand was simply a taxi operator who often picked up radical for Patel and did not know, until the nighttime of his arrest, that helium was helping migrants transverse the border.
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Patel’s lawyer says authorities are mistaken successful the content that Patel was portion of a smuggling ring.
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The assemblage proceedings is slated to tally until Friday.
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Illegal borderline crossings stay an issue
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