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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) A Polish citizen has been indicted for allegedly smuggling two illegal immigrants from Canada into the United States across the Pigeon River near Grand Portage Federal prosecutors say 31-year-old Marek Jerzy Struzik picked up the two men from Poland and Slovakia at the Toronto airport and drove them to Thunder Bay, Ontario.

The two men told authorities Struzik then took them to the Canadian side of the Pigeon River, walked them across at its Middle Falls, then went back to retrieve his vehicle and was supposed to pick them up on the Minnesota side in Grand Portage State Park.

They were all arrested August 1 on the Minnesota side of the border.

Prosecutors say Struzik was paid $2,500 for smuggling the men.

He faces a maximum potential penalty of 10 years in prison.

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