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11-10-2009, 02:14 AM #1
TX man given 14-plus years in prison in deadliest human smug
November 9, 2009
Texas man given 14-plus years in prison in deadliest human smuggling attempt in US history
By Juan A. Lozano, AP
Man gets 14 years in immigrant smuggling case
HOUSTON — A Texas man has been sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for his role in what became the deadliest human smuggling attempt in U.S. history.
Prosecutors say 40-year-old Abelardo Flores was part of a smuggling ring that packed more than 70 illegal immigrants into the back of a stifling tractor-trailer in May 2003 and tried to take them from southern Texas to Houston. Flores had pleaded guilty to a smuggling conspiracy charge.
As part of the sentence handed down Monday, he was also fined $3,000.
The immigrants, from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic, were found after the driver abandoned the trailer at a truck stop. Nineteen people died of dehydration, overheating and suffocation.
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