A jury convicted two men on Friday of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-U.

MINNEAPOLIS—A federal jury in Minnesota convicted Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, and Steve Anthony Shand, 50, on Friday for their roles in a human smuggling

A Minnesota jury finds the men guilty of charges related to a human smuggling scheme linked to the 2022 freezing deaths of an Indian family of four at the U.S.-Canada border.

Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Anthony Shand were both involved in a large-scale human trafficking operation that brought Indian nationals to Canada on student visas in order to smuggle them to the U.

Parents and their two children froze to death during a blizzard while trying to cross from Canada into the U.S.

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- 2 men convicted of charges related to human smuggling after an Indian family froze to death at the Canada-U.S. border.

A jury has reached verdicts for two men facing charges in a human smuggling case after an Indian family froze to death at the Canada-U.S. border

In January 2022, Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel had coordinated the operation, while Steve Shand was the driver designated to pick up 11 Indian migrants. However, only seven of them survived the harsh blizzard conditions,