Authorities allege a man recently arrested in Ontario in connection with a human smuggling scheme dropped a family of four off near the Manitoba-U.S. border and told them to walk through blizzard conditions when their van got stuck in a remote, snow-covered area on the January 2022 night they froze to death.

Fenil Patel, who was living in Brampton, Ont., was arrested on Sept. 5 following an extradition request from the United States. The charges he's expected to face there include conspiracy to bring aliens to the U.S. resulting in death, court documents obtained by CBC News say.

The update comes nearly four years after the Patel family — no relation to Fenil Patel — died of hypothermia while attempting to cross illegally into Minnesota, near Emerson, Man.

The frozen bodies of 39-year-o

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