News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Border agent sentenced for taking a bribe

Feb. 14, 2007 12:00 AM

A former Customs and Border Protection agent was sentenced to nine years in prison Tuesday for taking a bribe to allow a vehicle packed with 440 pounds of cocaine to pass through the Mariposa port of entry.

Fernando Arango, 52, of Rio Rico, faced a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $4 million fine, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix.

Arango had pleaded guilty in October to a charge of attempting to possess with intention to distribute cocaine.

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