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BY BILL DOLAN
bdolan@nwitimes.com
219.662.5328 | Wednesday, March 30, 2005 | (No comments posted.)
CHESTERTON | The U.S. attorney's office is charging a Mexican national with smuggling countrymen illegally into the United States.
Christian Eduardo Desantiago-Cardenas, 24, who has been living in Farmingville, N.Y., faces imprisonment and deportation for transporting at least 10 other illegal aliens through Northwest Indiana last week
Special Agent Kent Heirstein of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, alleges state police stopped the defendant March 23 for speeding in a 2005 Chevrolet Suburban on the Indiana Toll Road, just south of here.
Police said the defendant admitted he was driving 10 other Mexican national passengers to jobs in New York.
Heirstein said the family of the passengers had paid a $2,500 smuggling fee. The defendant was working for Gonzalo Flores, 47, of Coyoacan, Mexico, to pay off a smuggling fee he owed Flores for smuggling him into the United States earlier.
The defendant admitting making two other smuggling trips.
It was the second arrest of a smuggling network this month.
The U.S. attorney's office charged three men earlier with smuggling five young illegal aliens into Northwest Indiana. They were arrested in Chesterton after attempting to pass a counterfeit $100 bill at a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet here.
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