Two men found guilty of human smuggling after Indian family froze to death crossing US-Canada border

Sherburne County Sheriff’s Office shows Harshkumar Patel in Elk River, Minn., and undated photo released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows Steve Shand. - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Two men have been convicted on charges relating to human smuggling in a trial over the deaths of an Indian family that froze to death crossing the U.S.-Canada border.

Indian national Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel, 29, and Steve Shand, 50, an American from Florida, were part of a sophisticated smuggling operation that brought people from Canada into the U.S. illegally, prosecutors said.