Human-smuggling charge stayed

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A Calgary man arrested after he allegedly picked up seven men who had walked into Canada near Emerson in January 2024 is no longer facing criminal prosecution.

Court records show 50-year-old Saleh Youssouf had a charge of human smuggling stayed on Feb. 27. Court records do not detail reasons for the stay.

RCMP said at the time that its integrated border enforcement team had been alerted by U.S. agents that seven men were walking along a rail line towards Emerson, about 100 kilometres south of Winnipeg, at about 3:45 a.m. on Jan. 27.

Police later picked up the men — asylum seekers from Chad — near Dominion City in a rental vehicle allegedly driven by Youssouf.

He had been on bail since shortly after his arrest.