CUBAN NATIONAL CONVICTED FOR INTERNATIONAL ALIEN SMUGGLING AND MONEY LAUNDERING CONSPIRACY

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division issued the following news release:

A federal jury in the Middle District of Florida convicted a Cuban National for his role in an international alien smuggling and money laundering conspiracy.According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Lazaro Alain Cabrera-Rodriguez, 28, of Hialeah, Florida, conspired with others to operate an alien smuggling organization (ASO), which encouraged thousands of Cuban aliens to enter the U.S. through the southern border. These smugglers charged between $1,500 and $40,000 for the smuggling services, and co-conspirators sometimes chartered private planes to transport groups of aliens.

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