SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Two Customs and Border Protection officers have pleaded guilty to allowing drugs to enter the U.S. through their inspection lanes, authorities said.
According to the U.S. attorney’s office, Jesse Clark Garcia, 37, of San Diego and Diego Bonillo, 30, of Chula Vista conspired with members of a drug trafficking organization based in Mexico to allow vehicles transporting narcotics to enter the country without being inspected.
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Garcia worked at the Tecate Port of Entry while Bonillo worked at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry. They would notify the organization about the lane they were assigned to and what time by using a “secret emoji-based code,” the attorney’s office stated.
The organization would then send the vehicles through those lanes with the knowledge that neither of the two officers would inspect them…