News From the Border: Ex-agent gets prison in drug smuggling

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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.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Ex-agent gets prison in drug smuggling

Article Launched: 04/14/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT

A former El Paso immigration inspector who was on the run for more than a dozen years after being convicted of allowing millions of dollars worth of marijuana into the United States has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison, the U.S. attorney's office in San Antonio announced Friday.

Jose Trinidad Carrillo, 46, was convicted in 1994 of conspiracy to import marijuana, three counts of importation of marijuana and three counts of accepting bribes. Carrillo fled before being sentenced and was arrested in El Paso in December.

He was sentenced to federal prison Tuesday and forfeited his house, four vehicles, 10 guns and about $20,000 in cash.

Times wire reports

Labels: drugs from Mexico, Justice is served