March 28, 2024

Human smuggler gets four years after being caught at YVR

A French man convicted of smuggling people into Canada will spend more than three years in prison.

Mikael Jim Prone has been sentenced to 48 months, minus eight for time served.

Jennifer Bourque with the Canada Border Services Agency says Prone also faces being expelled from this country.

“A foreign national who’s proven to have engaged in people smuggling or human trafficking – as is the case here – is inadmissible to Canada on the grounds of foreign criminality and he could face deportation.”

In May, Prone was convicted on charges of human smuggling and falsifying documents.

He’s been in Canada since November when he arrived at YVR on a flight from China, pretending to be a tourist.

Border agents found two Israeli passports in his luggage that did not belong to him.

Investigators then linked him to two people who arrived on the same flight with no travel documents. They claimed they were siblings from Iran.

CKNW Vancouver News

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