Father and daughter plead guilty to smuggling banned R-22 gas

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A father and daughter duo pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to participating in a plot to smuggle banned refrigerants across the U.S.-Mexico border.

The U.S. Justice Department said 24-year-old Jasmine Rodriguez and 47-year-old Ricky Jesus Rodriguez both admitted to a months-long conspiracy to smuggle R-22, a banned hydrochlorofluorocarbon, from Mexico into the U.S…

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