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Phoenix man sentenced to 6 years for human smuggling
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A 23-year-old Phoenix man has been sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty in a human smuggling case, authorities said.
Jesus Alexandro Sanchez-Armenta’s sentence also includes five years of supervised release after his jail time is served, according to a release from the Arizona district of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Sanchez-Armenta pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy to transport illegal aliens for profit.
“Sanchez-Armenta coordinated and/or recruited his co-conspirators, through social media sites, including Snapchat, to pick up undocumented noncitizens in Southern Arizona and to transport them further into the United States for profit,” the release stated.
Sanchez-Armenta provided his co-conspirators with instructions on how and where to pick up the “undocumented noncitizens,” authorities stated in the release.
Either he or another member of the conspiracy would provide the co-conspirators with GPS coordinates for the pickups and “then provided them with transportation routes designed to circumvent detection by law enforcement.”
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