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.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Ex-agent is convicted of bribery, extortion

Article Launched: 04/19/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT

A former agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement faces up to 18 years in prison after his conviction Tuesday of bribery and extortion under color of law, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton announced Wednesday.

Santiago Efrain Valle, 43, was convicted in U.S. District Court in El Paso. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 9 by U.S. District Judge David Briones.

According to Sutton's office, the two-day trial revealed that Valle agreed to accept $20,000 in exchange for dismissing pending criminal charges against a detainee at the El Paso Service Processing Center and changing the detainee's risk classification. Valle was arrested on March 16 by federal agents after accepting $20,000 from undercover officers.

Tammy Fonce-Olivas

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