A Florida man who was arrested last year near the U.S.-Canada border with two migrants in a rented passenger van pleaded not guilty Friday to federal human smuggling charges.
Road signage just outside of Emerson, Manitoba, in January 2022. That month, the bodies of four people were found in the province of Manitoba yards from the U.S. border near the community of Emerson.
Shand entered his plea of not guilty via a Zoom conference with U.S. Magistrate Judge Leo I. Brisbois on Friday. Authorities later identified the dead as Jagdish Patel, 39; Vaishaliben Patel, 37; and their children, Vihangi, 11; and Dharmik, 3. They had become separated from a larger group of migrants crossing the border amid blizzard-like conditions and freezing temperatures, U.S. and Canadian officials said.
Shand was arrested in a rural area between ports of entry at Lancaster, Minnesota, and Pembina, North Dakota. He was held for five days before being released on a judge’s order that contained multiple conditions, including that he not travel beyond Minnesota or Florida.Shand is a naturalized citizen from Jamaica who rented the 15-passenger van from an agency at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport two days before his arrest, the document stated.
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