SEATTLE, WA (MyBellinghamNow.com) – A second person connected to a cross-border smuggling scheme has been sentenced.
Acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller says that 27-year-old Rajat Rajat will spend five months in prison for conspiring to bring people into the country for profit.
Rajat, a citizen of India who had also been smuggled into the U.S., met with at least eight people on two separate occasions at Peace Arch Park in 2023. He took payments and gave them instructions on how to illegally cross the border.
Rajat was arrested near the border in December 2023.
His co-conspirator, 36-year-old Sushil Kumar, was sentenced to six months in prison earlier this year.
And 68-year-old Bobby Joe Green of California, who served as a van driver for at least one of the smuggling trips, was sentenced to four months in prison.
Once his prison time is complete, Rajat is expected to be deported back to India.
