2 men charged in deaths of migrant family on Canada-U.S. border

U.S. federal prosecutors have indicted two men in connection with the deaths of an Indian migrant family over two years ago along the U.S.-Canada border.Florida resident Harshkumar Patel now faces multiple charges in the deaths of an Indian family who froze to death crossing the Canada-U.S. border in January 2022. U.S. federal prosecutors have indicted two men in connection with the deaths of an Indian migrant family over two years ago in Manitoba, along the U.S.-Canada border.

Later that same day the frozen bodies of 39-year-old Jagdish Patel, his 37-year-old wife, Vaishali, their 11-year -old daughter, Vihangi, and three-year-old son, Dharmik, were found in Canada just 12 metres from the U.S. border. They had died of exposure after being dropped at the border during a blinding snowstorm and –35 C temperatures.

Patel was arrested last month at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. An affidavit by a U.S. Homeland Security investigator in support of the arrest alleges Patel recruited and paid Shand to meet and transport the migrants once they crossed the border into the U.S. Court documents allege Patel managed a gambling establishment in Florida. It's also alleged Patel and Shand communicated via Whatsapp about rental cars, hotels and payments for Shand. U.S. investigators obtained call logs showing the two communicated 210 times between September 2021 and Jan. 21, 2022.

Investigators allege the Jan. 19 pickup was the fifth trip Shand had made to the border in that area, with the first being sometime around Dec. 12, 2021.

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