No More Deaths volunteer indicted on human-smuggling charges

In a separate case, Warren and eight other border activists face misdemeanor charges of driving in a wilderness area and leaving water jugs and food in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in June 2017.

By Curt Prendergast, Arizona Daily Star

February 20, 2018

A federal grand jury has indicted a No More Deaths volunteer on felony human-smuggling charges.

Scott Warren, 35, was charged with one count of human-smuggling conspiracy and two counts of knowingly concealing two border-crossers from law enforcement, according to a Feb. 14 indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Tucson. Warren faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

Warren is accused of giving two border-crossers food and water over the course of three days in January at a building near Ajo where the group provides humanitarian aid to crossers in distress.[…]

Read the full article:

http://tucson.com/news/local/no-more-deaths-volunteer-indicted-on-human-smuggling-charges/article_5797ade1-a5d3-5ea4-8ce3-95a647f35dd8.html

For more coverage, go to:

https://theintercept.com/2018/01/23/no-more-deaths-arizona-border-littering-charges-immigration/

http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2018/02/update-2518-immigration-news-you-may.html

http://thepoliticsofimmigration.blogspot.com/2017/06/as-temperatures-soar-in-southwest.html

Donate to the legal defense fund for humanitarian volunteers:

https://www.youcaring.com/nomoredeaths-1095179