Two U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers have been accused of working for a Mexican drug trafficking organization to allow vehicles loaded with fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine to pass unchecked through their inspection lanes in southern California.
Prosecutors allege Jesse Clark Garcia and Diego Bonillo “profited handsomely,” earning tens of thousands of dollars for each drug-laden vehicle they ushered into the U.S. without scrutiny, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Thursday. The name of the drug cartel was not disclosed.
The indictment alleges that Garcia and Bonillo combined allowed more than 1,150 pounds of drugs into the U.S. on five occasions between April 2021 and February of this year. That total only accounts for the drugs that authorities later seized.
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