In a separate case, Warren and eight other border
activists face misdemeanor charges of driving in a wilderness area and leaving
water jugs and food in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in June 2017.
By Curt Prendergast, Arizona Daily Star
February 20, 2018
A federal grand jury has indicted a No More Deaths volunteer
on felony human-smuggling charges.
Scott Warren, 35, was charged with one count of
human-smuggling conspiracy and two counts of knowingly concealing two
border-crossers from law enforcement, according to a Feb. 14 indictment filed
in U.S. District Court in Tucson. Warren faces a maximum sentence of 20 years
in prison.
Warren is accused of giving two border-crossers food and
water over the course of three days in January at a building near Ajo where the
group provides humanitarian aid to crossers in distress.[…]
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