Thread: Smuggler Of Immigrant Children Sentenced In Kansas

Smuggler Of Immigrant Children Sentenced In Kansas

A smuggler convicted of transporting illegal immigrants, including six unaccompanied children, has been sentenced in Kansas to 18 months in federal prison.

Santos Tomas Ochoa-Bello must also serve three years' probation under the sentence imposed Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren.

The 29-year-old Mexican national was sentenced under the terms of a plea deal to a charge of trafficking.

Ochoa-Bello made no courtroom statement.

Prosecutors said six children traveling alone were among the illegal immigrants found last November in a minivan stopped by the Kansas Highway Patrol in Barton County. The children included an unaccompanied 2-year-old girl wearing dirty clothes and an unchanged diaper.

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Santos Tomas Ochoa-Bello must also serve three years' probation under the sentence imposed Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren.

The 29-year-old Mexican national was sentenced under the terms of a plea deal to a charge of trafficking.

Can anyone tell me where this criminal will serve three years probation?

If the criminal is a Mexican national should he not be sent back to Mexico?

Smuggling children and he only gets 18 months?