A Mexican man was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison Monday in a 2008 rollover that killed four people near Eloy.
Hector Salas Garcia, 40, was driving a pickup truck with at least 31 passengers as part of a human smuggling attempt, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release Tuesday. All of the passengers were in the United States illegally.
A federal judge in Phoenix sentenced Salas Garcia to 121 months in federal prison after Salas Garcia pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport illegal immigrants resulting in death.
He left the scene of the rollover before law enforcement arrived and was taken to Mexico by his brother, Agustin Salas Garcia, who pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact and was sentenced in 2009 to 18 months in prison and then deported, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
