A grand jury in Minneapolis has indicted a man who was arrested near the Manitoba-U.S. border last month, accused of involvement in a human smuggling operation.
Steve Anthony Shand, 47, was arrested on Jan. 19 — the same day the bodies of a family of four who had frozen to death near the border were found.
He has now been indicted on two counts of human smuggling, acting United States attorney Charles J. Kovats said in a news release on Thursday.
On Jan. 19, U.S. Border Patrol officers stopped a 15-passenger van about one kilometre south of the international border in a rural area between the official ports of
