US EditionProsecutors seek prison for men guilty of human smuggling in Manitoba border deaths
- U.S. Attorneys filed sentencing submissions for Steve Shand and Harshkumar Patel, convicted of human smuggling after a family froze near the Manitoba border in January 2022.
- The men were involved in a cross-border trafficking operation that transported migrants from India to Canada using student visas, then forced them to travel on foot into the United States under severe winter weather.
- The lifeless remains of 39-year-old Jagdish Patel, his 37-year-old wife Vaishaliben, and their children—11-year-old Vihangi and 3-year-old Dharmik—were discovered just a short distance from the U.S. Border, exposed to harsh conditions with temperatures plunging below minus 20 degrees Celsius accompanied by fierce winds.
- U.S. Attorneys seek about 19 years in prison for Patel, who denies guilt and shows no remorse, and 10 years for Shand, whose lawyer argues the proposed sentence is “unduly punitive.”
- A judge denied new trial requests, ruling evidence proved guilt on all counts, and the men are scheduled for sentencing on 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. 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. The attorneys say in court documents that Patel is not remorseful and they’re requesting he be sentenced to …
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Prosecutors seek prison for men guilty of human smuggling in Manitoba border deaths
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Two Men Guilty of Human Trafficking Face Several Years in Prison - Canada French
FERGUS FALLS — U.S. prosecutors filed comments on the sentence of two men convicted after a family died of cold death trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border in Manitoba. A Minnesota jury said Steve Shand, from Florida, and Harshkumar Patel, an Indian national arrested in Chicago, guilty last year of trafficking in human beings. Parents and their two children, from India, were found in the snow a few metres from the U.S. border in January 2022. I…
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