Corruption along U.S.-Mexico border
In Columbus, N.M., the mayor and police chief and a city trustee pleaded guilty to gun smuggling across the nearby border with Mexico -- and experts say more such cases are likely.
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Standing watch( Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times / May 12, 2012 )
Javier Lozano is the pistol-packing municipal judge in Columbus, N.M., where the mayor, police chief and a city trustee pleaded guilty in a scheme to smuggle guns across the nearby U.S.-Mexico border. If Mexican cartel violence isn't stopped, he said, more U.S. communities are likely to experience similar disgraces
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