2 charged with SoCal smuggling deaths
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Two men have been charged with causing the deaths of two illegal immigrants who drowned this month when their boat capsized as they tried to reach a San Diego beach. A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted 50-year-old Fernando Figueroa-Rodriguez and 45-year-old Javier Jimenez-Yucupicio. The 30-count indictment charges them with smuggling illegal immigrants resulting in death.
Authorities say a San Diego police officer heard screams from Torrey Pines State Beach shortly after 4 a.m. on Jan. 16 and saw people trying to swim ashore from an overturned, 30-foot wooden boat.
Searchers found 16 people but a 34-year-old Mexican man and an 18-year-old Guatemalan man drowned.
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