Prosecutors Seek Prison for Men Guilty of Human Smuggling in Manitoba Border Deaths

Prosecutors Seek Prison for Men Guilty of Human Smuggling in Manitoba Border Deaths
The Edward J. Devitt U.S. Courthouse and Federal building is seen, where two men on trial face human smuggling charges, on Nov. 18, 2024, in Fergus Falls, Minn. AP Photo/Michael Goldberg
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U.S. attorneys have filed sentencing submissions for two men convicted after a family froze to death while trying to walk across the Canada-U.S. border in Manitoba.

A Minnesota jury found Steve Shand and Harshkumar Patel guilty of human-smuggling charges after the parents and two children from India were found in the snow in January 2022.