A Pakistani citizen was sentenced to 31 months in prison for a human smuggling charge in the District of Columbia. Muhammad Abid Hussain, 27, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates.
Hussain was found guilty of conspiring to encourage and induce an individual to come to the United States unlawfully. The crime occurred in February and March 2011, when Hussain and a co-conspirator conducted a human smuggling operation in Quito, Ecuador, that attempted to smuggle an individual from Pakistan to the United States.
No individuals or material were actually smuggled from Pakistan as part of the operation.
Hussain was arrested in Miami on March 13, 2011. He was also acquitted of a second charge of conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization relating to the same conduct.
The investigation was conducted by the ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) attaché office in Quito, Ecuador, with the HSI office in Atlanta, the Miami Division of the FBI and the Ecuadorian National Police.
The investigation was conducted under the Extraterritorial Criminal Travel Strike Force (ECT) program, a joint partnership between the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and HSI. The ECT program focuses on human smuggling networks that may present particular national security or public safety risks, or present grave humanitarian concerns.
The case was prosecuted jointly by prosecutors from the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section of the Criminal Division, the Counterterrorism Section of the National Security Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
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Key Facts
- State: District of Columbia
- Category: Human Trafficking
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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