Cellphone location records shown to jury in human smuggling trial – Winnipeg [Video]

The jury at a human smuggling trial has seen phone records the prosecution says show the two men accused were carrying out plans to sneak people across the Canada-U.S. border between Manitoba and Minnesota.

Steve Shand and Harshkumar Patel are accused of participating in several smuggling operations in December 2021 and January 2022.

One of the trips saw a family of four from India freeze to death in a blizzard on Jan. 19, 2022, the day Shand was arrested in a van just south of the border.

A cellular analyst with the Federal Bureau of Investigation testified about records related to phones the prosecution says belonged to the accused men.

The records track two phones the prosecution says belonged to Shand travelling, on multiple occasions, from his hometown in Florida to Minnesota then to an area near the border.

FBI special agent Nicole Lopez says during those trips there were …