A 38-year-old man from India has been charged with conspiring to smuggle six of his countrymen into the United States on commercial flights that landed at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Bhavin Patel was arrested at the airport Friday and charged with one count of conspiracy and six counts of smuggling foreign nationals into the United States for private financial gain, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey said in a statement. He is due in federal court in Newark on Dec. 18.
Patel was the ringleader of a group that smuggled at least six citizens of India into the U.S. by paying an unspecified undercover law enforcement agent hundreds of thousands of dollars over a two-year period beginning the fall of 2013, according to court papers.
Patel first arranged for his clients to travel from India to Thailand, where they boarded flights bound for New Jersey, officials said. The six people illegally entered the United States in pairs on Dec. 13, 2013; April 10, 2014; and Oct. 2, 2014, authorities said.
11/12/18 nj.com
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Bhavin Patel was arrested at the airport Friday and charged with one count of conspiracy and six counts of smuggling foreign nationals into the United States for private financial gain, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey said in a statement. He is due in federal court in Newark on Dec. 18.
Patel was the ringleader of a group that smuggled at least six citizens of India into the U.S. by paying an unspecified undercover law enforcement agent hundreds of thousands of dollars over a two-year period beginning the fall of 2013, according to court papers.
Patel first arranged for his clients to travel from India to Thailand, where they boarded flights bound for New Jersey, officials said. The six people illegally entered the United States in pairs on Dec. 13, 2013; April 10, 2014; and Oct. 2, 2014, authorities said.
11/12/18 nj.com
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