Smuggler gets 15 years in deaths
From Times Wire Reports
An immigrant smuggler who helped organize a 2005 truck trip during which 19 people died was sentenced in Houston to 15 years in prison.
Fredy Giovanni Garcia-Tobar, 31, a Guatemalan living in Harlingen, was sentenced without parole by U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore. He was convicted by a jury in December 2004.
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