Migrant smuggler sentenced to 60 years
Mexico ? Mexican prosecutors say they won a 60-year prison term for a human smuggler who helped about 200 people sneak into the U.S., including Hezbollah supporters.
Salim Boughader Mucharrafille was arrested in 2002 and convicted on organized-crime and immigrant-smuggling charges.
Boughader, a Mexican of Lebanese descent, ran a cafe in the city of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego.
Among those he smuggled were sympathizers of Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based group that U.S. authorities have labeled a terror organization.
The federal Attorney General’s Office on Sunday said Boughader also was fined $6,000.