More than three years after a family from India froze to death while trying to enter the U.S. along the Canadian border, the ringleader of a human smuggling plot was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, was sentenced to 10 years and Steve Shand, 50, received a sentence of more than six-and-a-half years for their involvement in a smuggling scheme that resulted in the ...

More than three years after a family from India froze to death while trying to enter the U.S. along the Canadian border, the ringleader of a human smuggling plot was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Listen to this story T he African family is under threat. That, at least, was the message of the “Pan-African Conference on Family Values” held in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, this month.

While his family expected he would be deported to Vietnam, Phan was sent to a U.S. Naval base in Djibouti in East Africa. His wife, Gnoc Phan, told KING 5 she was concerned he could be deported to ...