Convicted human smugglers sentenced after freezing death of family at U.S.–Canada border
It’s been more than three years since a family of four from India froze to death near the Manitoba–Minnesota border. On Wednesday, Harshkumar Patel, who prosecutors say was the ringleader in an international human smuggling ring, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Steve Shand, who was supposed to pick the family up, was sentenced to six and a half years.