The jury at a human smuggling trial has seen phone records the prosecution says show the two men accused were carrying out plans to sneak people across the Canada-U.S. border between Manitoba and Minnesota.
The Canadian PressThis combination image shows an undated photos released by the Sherburne County Sheriff’s Office of Harshkumar Patel in Elk River, Minn., and an undated photo of Steve Shand released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP Photo
Patel is alleged to have organized the logistics of the trips and to have paid Shand for picking up migrants in rented vehicles. The father and two children died huddled together in the cold, McBride said, while the mother died against a chain-link fence near an unmanned natural gas facility — an indication that she had left her family to try to find help at the only building in sight that night.
Shand’s lawyers said Shand was a taxi driver in Florida who was offered money by Patel to pick people up in different locations and was unaware he was doing anything wrong until the day of his arrest.“He being used by the conspiracy.” McBride countered that Shand made multiple trips in the frigid cold and must have known he was acting illegally. A border patrol agent testified that on the day of Shand’s arrest, with several migrants still wandering in the cold, Shand said there were no other people left to find.Harshkumar Patel’s lawyers said their client has been misidentified.
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