Ex-Border Agent Gets 5 Years in Drug Case
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A former Border Patrol agent was sentenced Monday to five years in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to smuggle 749 pounds of marijuana into the United States.
Luis Francisco Higareda, 30, was caught with marijuana worth $600,000 in his Border Patrol vehicle near El Centro, according to U.S. Atty. Carol Lam.
A co-conspirator, Marcelino Verdugo, 24, a Mexican national, is set to be sentenced next month in federal court.
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