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Minneapolis (KROC AM News) -  A Florida man who was involved in a deadly border-hopping case in northwest Minnesota has been charged with human smuggling.

A federal grand jury in Minneapolis returned the two-count indictment Thursday against 47-year-old Steve Shand.

The US Attorney’s Office says Shand was driving a 15-passenger van that was stopped by border patrol officers in northwest Minnesota on Jan. 19th. The stop was made less than a mile south of the border. There were two people in the van and they were later identified as undocumented Indian nationals.

It was later learned the two were part of a large family group. It’s believed Shand had planned to pick up a total of 11 Indian nationals who were trying to cross the border into Minnesota.

Authorities later found five more Indian nationals who said they had been walking in a blizzard for 11 hours. Temperatures had fallen to around -30 degrees at the time. A few hours later, the frozen bodies of a man, woman and two children, ages 3 and 11. The victims had apparently become separated from the group.

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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says “it appears that they all died due to exposure to the cold weather.”

https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2022/update-2-manitoba-rcmp-locate-four-deceased-individuals-the-canadaus-border?re

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