Border Patrol agents set for corruption trial

Border Patrol agents set for corruption trial

San Diego (AP) – Raul Villarreal was a long face of the Border Patrol, often appear in television news as an agency spokesman, and trafficking in a dangerous act of public service messages designed to warn Mexicans the dangers of illegally entering the United States

Prosecutors now say that he knew that Smuggler’s role as well, because he was really

Raul and his older brother and fellow former agent, Fidel, accused of smuggling hundreds of immigrants to the Border Patrol vehicles. Federal prosecutors say they were tipped brothers were under investigation in June 2006, forcing them to flee to Mexico

Soon after, live in Tijuana, Mexico, the District Chief of Police border city patrol cars to customers allegedly made Villarreals hail of 200 bullets killed. Brothers arrested in Tijuana in October 2008 – more than two years after abruptly to join the Border Patrol – and the issue before the U.S. charges of human trafficking, witness tampering and bribery

will be trial next month in San Diego, is one of the highest profile cases of corruption to escape from the Border Patrol as it went to work to celebrate the last decade. . The brothers, now in their early 40s, have asked not guilty to all points

Border Patrol has suffered a number of such embarrassments ago doubled the size of the last seven years more than 21,000 agents. His national strategy released last month notes that even the agent is unacceptable, and outlines steps to fight corruption

criminal charges against employees of Customs and Border Protection – which monitors the border agents and other border areas, security officials – is growing every year during the last four to 60 in fiscal 2011 pursuant to the Department of Homeland Security inspector general. There have been 232 charges in October 2007 to April 2012

Raul” implement the so-called American dream, “wrote David Nick, his lawyer

Fidel excelled as a student, the police training, community college, studied at the State University of Aeronautics and joined the Border Patrol 1998th His family says it was customary to call the police reported graffiti in the neighborhood

As an adult, Villarreal brothers lived with their parents and siblings in the house they purchased for $ 140,000 in 1996 in National City, about 10 miles from the border. Correspondence with family and friends say that they were devoted to their parents, diabetic mother and father’s heart disease

investigation began in May 2005, the informant’s tip of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Investigators cameras installed poles where immigrants were to plant a secret recording devices, sat on the border monitoring equipment and vehicles, followed by a smuggling load the plane.