PLATTSBURGH, New York (WWNY) – A citizen of India pleaded responsible to smuggling folks into the usfrom Canada by way of the Akwesasne Mohawk Reservation Friday.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 40-year-old Simranjit Singh was taken into custody in Ontario in June 2022.

Singh was extradited to the United States this March.

Authorities say Singh admitted to facilitating the smuggling of quite a few Indian nationals into the States from Canada from at the very least March 2020 by way of March 2021 for revenue.

Pleading responsible to a number of prices of Alien Smuggling and Conspiracy to Commit Alien Smuggling, Singh faces a compulsory jail time period of 5 years that may go as much as 15 years and a advantageous of as much as $250,000.

Singh can be sentenced December twenty eighth and might be deported after serving his sentence.

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