Customs Agent Gets 23 Years for Taking Bribes to Let Drugs and Immigrants Enter US

Published on October 28, 2024

A former customs agent received a 23-year prison sentence in federal court in San Diego on Oct. 25 for using his official position to allow illegal drugs to flow across the border into the United States. Leonard Darnell George, 42, accepted bribes from two drug trafficking organizations in exchange for allowing unauthorized migrants and vehicles filled with methamphetamine and other illicit drugs—including fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin—to enter from Mexico, prosecutors said in a statement. Numerous witnesses testified during the trial that George permitted vehicles containing drugs to enter the United States through his lane in late 2021. George would alert his associates in a drug trafficking organization of his inspection lane, as well as how long they would have to wait to get to the front....

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