Truck Deaths: Driver Says He Didn't Know He Carried People

Though the scope of the tragedy quickly became clear—now 10 people dead after being contained in a stiflingly hot tractor-trailer parked at a San Antonio Walmart—the charge truck owner James M. Bradley Jr. was to face in connection with the case was unclear, reports Reuters. That changed Monday. 

In advance of Bradley's appearance in federal court, the 60-year-old driver of the truck was charged with transporting immigrants in the US illegally—a charge that could carry the death penalty, reports the AP. The San Antonio Express-News explains that the law allows the penalties to be elevated when a human smuggling operation ends in death. 

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