2 Plead Guilty in Bid to Smuggle Haitians to U.S.
From Times Wire Reports
Two men pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggle more than 200 Haitians to the U.S. on an overloaded freighter, in one of the largest recent alien smuggling cases in the state.
Edner Dorvil and Sali Altanese Jean each face five years in prison, the Miami U.S. attorney’s office said.
On Oct. 29, the freighter ran aground near Key Biscayne and the more than 200 Haitians aboard jumped into water and waded ashore, swarming onto a bridge before being rounded up.
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