Brazilian gets 5 months for bringing aliens across border
Posted by Scott Sunde at August 11, 2009 12:39 p.m

A Brazilian man who admitted to trying to bring aliens across the border to pay off a $5,000 debt was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Seattle to five months in prison Tuesday.

Renato Soares de Almeida was arrested March 19 in Sumas as he tried to bring three other Brazilians into the U.S. He faces deportation after his prison term.

Court documents say that sensors alerted authorities on the night of March 19 that a group had crossed the border near the Sumas River.

A search turned up Soares de Almedia and three others. He told investigators that had a $5,000 debt for the person who arranged for him to be smuggled across the border. He was paying off the debt by leading the people into the United States.

He pleaded guilty in April

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