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FBI: Border corruption increasing on US side

Coming on the heels of allegations that Los Zetas corrupted a deputy constable in Collin County, I was interested to see that Reuters has a feature on drug-enforcement related police corruption at the southern end of the state ("Drug smugglers bribing US agents on Mexican border," July 15):U.S. Border Patrol agent Reynaldo Zuniga was arrested last month lugging a bag of cocaine up from the Rio Grande, one of a growing number of law enforcement officers accused of taking bribes from drug gangs.Former colleagues say Zuniga used to wait until agents in the south Texas town of Harlingen were distracted with paperwork, then slip down to the river and help smuggle in drugs from Mexico.The increasing use of bribes by Mexican drug cartels to corrupt U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 16, 2008 (boomark / email).