A man charged after a pregnant woman dies trying to cross the US-Canada border in New York

Plattsburgh, New York man, issued from Canada, was detained on charges of human smuggling on Thursday in the event of a 33-year-old pregnant woman found dead in the cold northern river New York after she illegally crossed the border, federal power reports .

The body of Ana Vasquez-Floros Mexico was found in the Great Camz River south of the Canadian border on December 14, 2023, two days after her husband told the US border agents that she had illegally crossed and lost. Seekers found traces in the snow leading to the river where it drowned, reports the federal authorities.

The death of Vasquez-Flores came against the backdrop of a splash of people moving to New York and New England from Canada. The incident has become an example of the dangers that migrants face the origin of wooded and often a snow landscape along the US-Canada border.

The 36-year-old Jhader Augustus Uribue-Tobar is accused of federal prosecutors of smuggling Vaskes-Flores in the United States for $ 2500 and are charged with ride through the river in the dark.

The Uribue-Tobar did not plead guilty of federal accusations of the smuggling of alien and conspiracy to smuggish foreign. He was detained until trial. Prosecutors say he is a citizen of Colombia and lives in Quebec, Canada.

“This tragedy emphasizes the danger of illegal migration and, as claimed, smugglers deliberately bring harm to people for profit,” said US prosecutor Carl Friedman in a prepared statement.

Federal Public Defender of Uribier-Tobara refused to comment in the email.