2 face prison for attempts to smuggle youths into U.S.

By Alexis Huicochea
ARIZONA DAILY STAR

A 48-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman have been sentenced to serve time in federal prison after attempting to smuggle three children into the country in unrelated cases.

Brenda Adilene Corral-Miranda was sentenced to 15 months in prison after she attempted to enter at the Nogales port of entry with a 14-year-old girl on Aug. 17, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona.

She presented another child's border-crossing visa for the girl and claimed she was her neighbor. But the photo on the visa did not resemble the girl and Corral-Miranda didn't know the names of the girl's parents, the release said.

Corral-Miranda admitted she did not know the girl and had made a deal with a woman she didn't know to bring the girl into the country in exchange for 1,000 pesos, the release said.

Corral-Miranda of Nogales, Sonora, had her border-crossing documents revoked upon being arrested. She was sentenced Jan. 8 on a charge of conspiracy to transport an illegal entrant for profit.