{"id":847,"date":"2026-08-12T12:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T12:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/?p=847"},"modified":"2026-08-12T12:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T12:06:26","slug":"new-york-woman-pleads-guilty-to-trafficking-indians-from-canada-says-she-picked-people-from-border-and-dropped-them-off-inside-us-for-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chetana.live\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"New York woman pleads guilty to trafficking Indians from Canada, says she picked people from border and dropped them off inside US for profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-133181199,imgsize-94442,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/new-york-woman-pleads-guilty-to-trafficking-indians-into-the-us-from-canada-border.jpg\" alt=\"New York woman pleads guilty to trafficking Indians from Canada, says she picked people from border and dropped them off inside US for profit\" title=\"New York woman pleads guilty to trafficking Indians into the US from Canada border.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"New York woman pleads guilty to trafficking Indians into the US from Canada border.\">New York woman pleads guilty to trafficking Indians into the US from Canada border.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>New York woman Stacey Taylor, 43, who was arrested and charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/human-trafficking\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">human trafficking<\/a> in 2025, has now pleaded guilty to her role in an international smuggling conspiracy that primarily brought Indians to the US through the US-Canada border. <!-- -->On January 20, 2025, Taylor&#8217;s vehicle was stopped by the border patrol agents near Churubusco, New York.<!-- --> Four men, three Indians and one Canadian, were sitting inside her vehicle<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>When law enforcement later examined Taylor&#8217;s cellphone, they learned that Taylor had received coordinates for the illegal migrants&#8217; location and instructions for picking them up. The four migrants illegally entered the United States on foot through a wooded area and got into Taylor\u2019s waiting vehicle, and she then drove them away from the border and further into the interior of the United States. <!-- -->Stacey&#8217;s role in the racket began this side of the US border after migrants crossed over.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>After law enforcement stopped her vehicle, Taylor admitted that she picked up the four migrants and expected to receive payment for doing so. Additional review of Taylor\u2019s phone revealed text messages that indicated that she had been involved in multiple other human smuggling events in the days prior. But after the January incident, she went back to the racket and was found smuggling illegal migrants again in August and September, 2025.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Taylor pleaded guilty to conspiracy to engage in alien smuggling and four counts of alien smuggling for profit. She is scheduled to be sentenced on December 3 and faces a statutory minimum penalty of five years in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Human trafficking in the US-Canada borders<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"19\"\/>The US-Canada border is notorious for human trafficking and many facilitators are involved in gangs that operate these on both sides of the border. <!-- -->In 2022, a similar case of trafficking involving Indians came to the surface when an Indian family froze to death during a blizzard while crossing into the US from Canada. Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Anthony Shand were convicted in the case in 2025.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>Jagdish Patel, 39, his wife Vaishaliben, 37, and their two children, 11-year-old Vihangi and three-year-old Dharmik, were found dead near the border in January 2022. They were caught in a blizzard with temperatures as low as -38C (-36F).<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/new-york-woman-pleads-guilty-to-trafficking-indians-from-canada-says-she-picked-people-from-border-and-dropped-them-inside-us-for-profit\/articleshow\/133181087.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York woman pleads guilty to trafficking Indians into the US from Canada border. New York woman Stacey Taylor, 43, who was arrested and charged with human trafficking in 2025, has now pleaded guilty to her role in an international smuggling conspiracy that primarily brought Indians to the US through the US-Canada border. 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