Overview

• Fenil Patel, 37, was taken into custody in Ontario on Sept. 5 on a U.S. extradition request and is due in Ontario Superior Court in Brampton this week.
• New court filings indicate a District of Minnesota indictment, with U.S. authorities alleging offenses including conspiracy to bring migrants into the country resulting in death.
• Homeland Security evidence presented in U.S. proceedings says Patel rented a car in Toronto on Jan. 17, 2022, drove it to Winnipeg, and returned it as the family was taken to the border.
• A cooperating witness testified the Dingucha family called Patel during the blizzard and were falsely told a pickup would meet them after they were told to walk across open prairie.
• Two U.S. co-defendants, Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel and Steve Shand, were convicted in Minnesota and sentenced earlier this year to roughly 10 years and 6½ years, respectively.