Two people have been sentenced after Canada Border Services Agency officers stopped an illegal crossing at the Sprague border crossing in Manitoba earlier this year.
The CBSA said the driver of a minivan was stopped on May 7 because of “inconsistencies” in their declaration statement.
Officers searched the van and found a 46-year-old man hiding in the trunk. Both the driver and man were arrested.
CBSA said the man, Temitope Omofuyi Davies, told officers that he paid the driver of the minivan $1,000 to get him into Canada.
CBSA officers later learned that Davies had also been caught in March trying to cross illegally into Canada near Surrey, B.C.
Davies pled guilty to the charge of failure to report under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act on Aug. 19 and was sentenced to time served.
The driver of the minivan, 50-year-old Annan Nigel Ferguson, who is an American citizen, was charged with aiding and abetting failure to report. He was sentenced on Nov. 4 to one year in prison.
Accounting for time served, Ferguson has roughly three more months remaining on his sentence.
