Border Patrol Agent Accused of Taking Bribes to Let Drugs Into San Diego

A Customs and Border Protection officer and his K-9 are ready to inspect vehicles entering the United States at the San Ysidro port of entry in California on April 9, 2018. Mario Tama/Getty Images

SAN DIEGO—A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer has been charged on July 3 in an indictment unsealed with allegedly accepting bribes to allow drug-laden vehicles across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Leonard Darnell George is charged along with several others with conspiracy to import and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego. George is separately charged with receiving bribes, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.