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Customs Officers Plead Guilty to Allowing Cartels to Smuggle Drugs Into US

The former Customs and Border Protection officers will be sentenced later this year.
Customs Officers Plead Guilty to Allowing Cartels to Smuggle Drugs Into US
Vehicles wait in line to cross the border into the United States at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in Tijuana, Mexico, on March 18, 2025. Gregory Bull/AP Photo
Kimberly Hayek
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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers Jesse Clark Garcia and Diego Bonillo pleaded guilty to conspiring with members of a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization, federal prosecutors said on July 28.

Garcia and Bonillo admitted to deliberately allowing vehicles carrying drugs to enter the United States without undergoing an inspection.

Kimberly Hayek
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Kimberly Hayek is a reporter for The Epoch Times. She covers California news and has worked as an editor and on scene at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2018 migrant caravan crisis.