Dual citizen arrested for smuggling that killed Romanian family of four

A double USACanadian The citizen was arrested last month for his alleged role to smuggle a quarter of Romanian family into the United States, which made them dead, including two small children.

The 34 -year -old Timothy Oakes from the Mohawk Indian Reserve (Amir) in Canada was arrested on June 15 when he tried to enter the US Ministry of Justice said.

He is accused of conspiring with others to deal with four charges of extraterrestrial profit and four charges of the outdoor smuggling, which leads to death. He appeared before a federal court on Tuesday and was prescribed.

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Timothy Oakes’ vehicle with a light blue boat in tow on March 29, 2023, which corresponded to the boat found in the saint. Lawrence River during the recovery effort. (Ministry of Justice)

His co-dismissal-dakota montour (31) and Kawisiositha Celecia Sharrow (43), both from nakwesasne-Mohawk, New York, and Janet Terrance (45) from Hogansburg, New York-Sind, New York-Sind.

“Oakes and his co -conspirators benefited from human smuggling surgery with a unique, cold -hearted goal: to make money by bringing illegal foreigners to the United States, regardless of the danger to human life,” said Matthew Galeotti, head of the penal department of the Ministry of Justice. “Her greed led to the death of a mother, a father and two little children as well as one of his own brothers.”

Oakes smuggled illegal immigrants from Canada north new York According to the state prosecutor with boats, to get over the St. Lawrence River.

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A cruise boat is approaching the Thousand Islands International Bridge on the St. Lawrence River, the New York with Ontario, Canada, in the middle of the region in the middle of the region. (Getty Images)

He earned $ 1,000 per person, said the authorities. In March 2023, Oakes, together with other alien, housed a Romanian family of four children before they supposedly took them to his boat to illegally bring them to the USA

Oakes, his brother Casey and the Romanian family were on the ship when it was caps. kill the familyincluding two children under the age of 3, and his brother.

“Two children and their parents in the toddler were the tragic victims of an extraterrestrial attempt at smuggling who went terribly wrong,” said Robert Garcia, chief polica, Robert Garcia from the US Border Patrol sector. “Your death was a direct result of callige smugglers Who exploited the vulnerable. “

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Terrance, Montour and Sharrow admitted in their plea agreements that they were employed to illegally transport them Romanian family -A mother, a father, a 1-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl-of Canada to New York. Montour admitted that he was aware of the dangerous weather conditions on the day of the smuggling attempt – strong winds, freezer temperatures and limited visibility, said the Ministry of Justice.