Human smuggler who rammed Coast Guard boat off California sentenced to 5 years in federal prison
Associated Press
Updated Wed, July 12, 2023 at 10:40 PM EDT·1 min read
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A boat captain who rammed a U.S. Coast Guard vessel off Southern California after smuggling a dozen people into the country was sentenced Wednesday to five years in federal prison.
Jesus Jeovanny Alcaraz-Valdez was sentenced in San Diego for the December 2022 incident by a judge who called his actions “extremely reckless and extremely troubling," the U.S. attorney's office said in a statement.
Alcaraz piloted a panga boat — a small, fishing-style vessel often used by human smugglers — to illegally bring an estimated 12 people into the United States from Mexico, prosecutors said.
The immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala paid up to $24,000 each for the trip, authorities said.
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