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Human Smuggling Case Finally Ends

By Steve Hall

Seven years after a deadly human smuggling operation, a plea agreement ended the final prosecution in the case.  One federal death sentence was sought -- but rejected by jurors -- among the 14 defendants."Man sentenced to 14 years in deadly smuggling case," is the title of Juan Lozano's report for AP, via Google News.The last of more than a dozen people indicted for their roles in the deadliest human smuggling attempt in U.S. history was sentenced to prison Monday, more than seven years after the bodies of nearly 20 illegal immigrants were discovered in a tractor-trailer.Octavio Torres-Ortega was given a 14-year term for participating in a smuggling ring that packed more than 70 illegal immigrants into the back of the stifling truck in May 2003 and tried to transport them from southern Texas to Houston...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 08, 2010 (boomark / email).