2 men prioritized money over human life leading to deaths of Indian family: Prosecutors
Deccan ChronicleFergus Falls, Minn.: 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, prosecutors said Monday. Prosecutors allege Indian national Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, ran part of a sprawling human smuggling scheme and recruited Steve Shand, 50, to shuttle migrants across the border. Shand and Patel knew the winter weather conditions were extreme, but chose to go forward with a plan to smuggle migrants across the border on foot anyway, prosecutor Ryan Lipes said in his opening statement. “This case is about these two men putting profit over people’s lives, profit they earned by smuggling migrants from India across the Canadian border into the U.S,” Lipes told the jury.
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