Five Mexican nationals have been arrested and charged after a boat wearing migrants, dressed in the vicinity of San Diego and at least three people killedThe office of the American lawyers for the southern district of California announced on Tuesday.
The dead include a 14-year-old boy from India, who was on the ship with his parents and his sister, Said the authorities. The father is in a coma and the mother is also admitted to the hospital, while his sister, 10, is still missing and supposed, according to the office of the American lawyers.
The boat, which was destroyed on Monday, was a panga, a kind of open ship used for wearing people or drugs.
The authorities said they arrested Jesus Ivan Rodriguez-Lleyva, 36, and Julio Cesar Zuniga-Luna, 30, on Monday in Torrey Pines State Beach just north of San Diego. According to the office of the American lawyer, both are responsible for bringing in aliens that result in death, which has a maximum fine of death or life in prison and a fine of $ 250,000, and with the acquisition of extraterrestrial beings for financial gain.
Later that night the authorities Melissa Jennelle Cota, 33, Gustavo Lara, 32, and Sergio Rojas-Fregoso, 31. They are accused of transporting illegal aliens, said the American lawyer’s office. If convicted, they are confronted with a maximum of 10 years in prison and a fine of $ 500,000.
None of the defendants had lawyers and contacts were not provided in the court reports on Tuesday evening.
“The drowning of these children is a heartbreaking memory of how few human traffickers care about the costs of their fatal issues,” said Adam Gordon, the American lawyer for the southern district of California, in a statement.
The starting point of the boat and where it went, were not immediately announced. Eight of the nine migrants who are initially not justified after the boat capsized was found, the authorities said. Details about the other passengers were not available.
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