Border Deaths

• Man appealing human smuggling convictions can represent himself: U.S. judge

  Harshkumar Patel was sentenced to just over 10 years in prison last year, after a Minnesota jury found him guilty of being part of the smuggling ring.

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  Jan 7
  
• Man sentenced to 10 years for human smuggling in case of frozen family

  Harshkumar Patel and Steve Shand were convicted last fall on four charges related to bringing people illegally into the United States and transporting them.

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  May 28, 2025
  
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• Prosecutors seek prison for men guilty of human smuggling in Manitoba border deaths

  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.

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  May 15, 2025
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• Judge rejects new trials for 2 convicted of human smuggling in death of family of 4 from India

  U.S. District Judge John Tunheim declined to set aside the guilty verdicts that a jury returned last November against Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Anthony Shand

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  Apr 8, 2025
• ‘Immoral depravity’: Two men convicted in case of frozen migrant family in Manitoba

  Steve Shand and Harshkumar Patel were each convicted Friday on all four counts related to bringing unauthorized people into the U.S., transporting them and profiting from it.

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  Nov 22, 2024
• Cellphone location records shown to jury in human smuggling trial

  The prosecution is expecting to wrap up its case Thursday in the trial of two men accused of human smuggling at the border between Manitoba and Minnesota.

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  Nov 21, 2024
• Trial sees texts between men accused in migrants’ deaths by Manitoba-Minnesota border

  Steve Shand and Harshkumar Patel have pleaded not guilty to charges of organizing several illegal crossings of Indian nationals from Manitoba to Minnesota in 2021 and 2022.

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  Nov 20, 2024
• Blizzard conditions met migrants at Manitoba-Minnesota border crossing, trial hears

  Steve Shand and Harshkumar Patel are accused of being part of a ring that flew Indian nationals to Canada, then had them walk across the border between Manitoba and Minnesota.

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  Nov 19, 2024
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• Trial begins for men accused in migrants’ deaths near Manitoba border crossing

  The men have pleaded not guilty to charges including conspiracy to transport aliens causing serious bodily injury and placing lives in jeopardy.

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  Nov 18, 2024
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• Suspects plead not guilty in human smuggling case involving Indian family’s death at Manitoba border

  New details have been released in the Manitoba human trafficking case that saw an Indian family freeze to death in 2022 while trying to cross into the U.S. on foot.

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  Mar 27, 2024