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A man from the Dominican Republic and a man from the United States have been charged with conspiring to smuggle foreign nationals into the United States vis the Canada-US border.
The US Department of Justice says in a press release that Francisco Antonio Luna Rosado and Jesus Hernandez Ortiz planned to smuggle people from Mexico and Central and South America into the United States.
The news release says the pair has been charged with one count of conspiracy to illegally bring people to the United States and 12 counts of illegally bringing people into the country for private financial gain.
The release says Luna Rosado also faces two counts of transactional money laundering related to human smuggling.
The US Department of Justice says Luna Rosado directed smuggling operations from at least Aug. 2022 until at least March 2024.
It says the people arrived in Canada by air, then Luna Rosado used shared cellular location data tto guide them to northern Vermont, where they were picked up and driven to New York City.
Source: The Canadian Press
