SAN DIEGO—A federal judge sentenced a San Diego man to 18 years in prison Friday for piloting a small vessel overloaded with 32 illegal immigrants that smashed apart in powerful surf off San Diego’s coast last year, killing three people.
U.S. District Judge Janis L. Sammartino called it “the most egregious case I’ve ever had in my courtroom in over 15 years in the Southern District of California” before sentencing 40-year-old Antonio Hurtado.
