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Mexican prosecutors say they won a 60-year prison term for a human smuggler who helped about 200 people sneak into the United States, including Hezbollah supporters.

Salim Boughader Mucharrafille was originally arrested by U.S. authorities and pleaded guilty to running a ring that helped more than 100 immigrants – most of them Lebanese – cross the border to San Diego.

Boughader was arrested in 2003 by Mexican federal agents as he returned to Mexico. A federal judge in Mexico City sentenced him to 14 years in 2006, but the sentence was annulled the following year on the grounds that not all the evidence had been submitted.

The federal Attorney General's Office said Sunday that Boughader recently was found guilty of organized crime and smuggling of undocumented immigrants.


The federal Attorney General's Office on Sunday said Boughader also was fined $6,000. Mexican prison terms are sometimes reduced for good behavior. –S.D. & AP

Staff writers Pauline Repard, Susan Shroder, Debbi Baker, Angelica Martinez, Ray Huard and Sandra Dibble and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


