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Hudson Valley Man Sentenced For Smuggling Vietnamese Nationals Into US Hudson Valley Man Sentenced For Smuggling Vietnamese Nationals Into US
Hudson Valley Man Sentenced For Smuggling Vietnamese Nationals Into US A Hudson Valley man already in prison for sex crimes will serve additional time after admitting that he smuggled Vietnamese nationals into the US for profit. Orange County resident Marlon Lainez-Velasquez, age 48, of Newburgh, was sentenced to four years in prison Friday, July 22 in federal court in Plattsburgh. It followed his previous guilty plea to charges of alien smuggling. Federal prosecutors said Lainez-Velasquez admitted to driving to the border in Burke in May 2021, where he helped smuggle five Vietnamese nationals into the United States from Canada. He admitted that he did so in…