Vermont State Police are investigating after a person collapsed and died shortly after crossing the border into america from Quebec on foot final week.
They are saying U.S. border patrol brokers noticed Jose Leos Cervantes and two different individuals crossing the border into Holland, Vt., at about 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 19.
Police say in a information launch that Leos Cervantes collapsed when encountered by the brokers and that the opposite two males ran again towards Canada.
The 45-year-old from Aguascalientes, Mexico, was taken to hospital, and his demise shouldn’t be thought-about suspicious.
That is the second time this winter an individual has died crossing the border — a 44-year-old man was discovered frozen to demise in early January in a wooded space close to St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Que., the place police stated he was making an attempt to enter america.
A 31-year-old Ecuadorian girl from Connecticut was charged final week with unlawfully making an attempt to move three people inside america following Leos Cervantes’s demise.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Feb. 28, 2023.
