Customs Agent Guilty in Immigrant Smuggling
From Times Wire Reports
A federal inspector at Newark Liberty International Airport pleaded guilty to taking a $4,000 bribe to help smuggle nearly 200 immigrants from India into the United States.
Terence Walden, 35, admitted taking part in a scheme to whisk the immigrants past customs officials.
Walden, a senior inspector with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, said he split the 1993 payoff with another inspector, now awaiting trial.
He could be sentenced to as much as 15 years in prison Aug. 9.
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