Two jailed for roles in fatal desert smuggling
NZPA-Reuter Tucson Arizona
A federal' judge yesterday sentenced a Salvadorean and a Mexican tto. five years each in prison for their, roles in an; alien-smuggling bid that end-1 ed in the deaths of 13 people in a scorching desert last July. ■' • . '[ ' District Judge James Walsh sentenced Elias Nunez Guardado, aged 26, of El Salvador and Mateo Preciado Navarro, aged 54, of Sonoita, Mexico, both- of, whom had pleaded guilty last monthto Fedetal alien-smuggling charges, ■ Another Salvadorean, Santos Flores Elias,, aged 22, pleaded .not. guilty; but was convicted after a trial and was scheduled to be sentenced on November 3.
; Fourteen Salvadoreans and Mexicans survived/,_the> desert trek, but 13 men, “women and children died after getting lost in' the vast Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Park, near Ajo, in south-west-ern Arizona. > .
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