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Imagine having your life ruined all because you unknowingly [music] pick up a criminal passenger. That's what just happened to this innocent Uber driver named Wenzhe An Tro, and it's [music] terrifying because he literally did everything right. You see, Wenzhe got a message last year from what seemed like a harmless [music] college student

asking for a 7-hour ride from the Canadian border to New York. Although he thought he was picking up a Chinese [music] guy since they were messaging in Mandarin, he was surprised to arrive on a Mohawk reservation and get met [music] by this really suspicious guy. Since Wenzhe was a Chinese immigrant who didn't speak much English, all he

understood was that the guy had to deliver these massive packages to New York [music] and that he wouldn't be coming with him. So, even though Wenzhe felt something wasn't right, he had spent the whole day driving here and had no reason to turn down such a simple request. After [music] leaving, he actually called his friend and told him

he was really worried it was illegal marijuana inside that he was being asked to carry. So, when Wenzhe indeed later got pulled over by Border Patrol agents who had been surveilling him for hours, he did everything they asked. >> A customer asked me to come over and pick up something and take it to New

York. >> But, despite showing his texts and even his dashcam [music] footage as proof, he was soon facing up to 20 years in prison for carrying more than half a million dollars of marijuana. Even though literally every piece of evidence and just piece of common sense pointed to the fact that Wenzhe had no idea what he