American paid $1,500 to smuggle family over Osoyoos border banned from Canada

An American man has been deported and banned from Canada after he was caught trying to smuggle a family from Mexico across the Osoyoos border for $1,500.

Beckett was to provide assistance on the final leg of the family’s journey in exchange for $1,500, helping them across the Canadian border in an area in the U.S. that he was familiar with based on experience hunting and capturing wild horses in the region. “And based on the evidence that is before me, there are reasonable grounds to believe that you, Mr. Beckett, had knowledge of the criminal aim of the organization,” reads the transcript. “You knew that facilitating this family across the border was illegal and it seems as though that was the main aim and purpose of this group and that organization.”

“The argument that you were merely trying to help this family and that the money was just a bonus is not reasonable under the circumstances,” reads the transcript.

The two incidents, one in February of 2023 and the other in September have him facing a long list of felony charges including robbery in the first degree, assault in the second degree, harassment and threats to kill in the second degree, intention to commit a felony, possession of a stolen firearm and attempting to elude a police vehicle.

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