Ex-agent gets 2 years for immigrant smuggling
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A former border patrol agent was sentenced Thursday to a two-year federal prison term for conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants into the country.
Eric Balderas Jr., 26, conspired with another agent to smuggle more than 100 immigrants at a time while on patrol in an area east of Tecate, according to his plea agreement from December 2005.
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