It is claimed that a customs employee and the American border protection accused of smuggling immigrants across the EL PASO border was shining in the moon as a member of a Mexican drug cartel, according to the testimony of the Federal Agent.
In his hearing last Thursday, investigators said that the National Democratic Party officer, Manuel Perez Junior, a 32 -year -old American citizen originally from California, is claiming to be a member of La Linea, more known as Cartel JUárez drugs.
“Several witnesses said that he belongs to La Linea Cartel in Mexico,” a special agent in the CBP professional liability office who witnessed in the hearing, as reported by El Paso Times.
PEREZ was launched on February 8 after his arrest by FBI El Paso West Texas Frung Expression Force on charges of federal and human drug smuggling.
Perez may face up to 10 years in life imprisonment if convicted. It does not have a previous criminal history or is reported by issues with materials. The Federal Magistical Judge ordered him to stay in prison without support after the detention session on February 13.
It is claimed that Perez told the investigators that he had received $ 2,500 for every undocumented immigrant that was allowed to pass through his inspection corridor on the international bridge on the La Passo borders, as the special agent witnessed. Pathfinder Gray, the Gray, allowed immigrants who hate the border, including children several times, according to the indictment.
The number of people who helped Perez smuggled the border before his arrest.
In total, the prosecution that Perez could have shattered his portfolio with an amount of $ 400,000 in the date dating back to December 2023.
It was also claimed that he participated in the Cocaine distribution plot from November 2019 to the beginning of this month, according to the indictment. In one case, he was accused of helping to move eight kilograms of cocaine from El Passo to Louisiana and North Carolina in October 2023.
The agent referred to the “officer in their pocket”, the agent witnessed the “100 % guarantee” of the other smugglers who heard during the usual phone calls that referred to the “100 % guarantee” crossings thanks to the “officer in their pocket”, as the agent witnessed.
The Perez Lawyer, Robin Ortiz, noted that the smugglers who heard over the phone can lie about Perez's participation.
“The cooperative witnesses (federal investigators) tell them everything they want to hear at the present time,” Ortiz said, adding that the informants “refer to fingers, perhaps for Saleh's acquisition of the government in their cases.”
But the customer testified that Perez was always armed, even when he was asleep and said that the witnesses claimed that it was difficult to armed security details with him whenever he was in Mexico – accused of support from the evidence of the pictures.
Another witness to the investigators was told that Perez said that he would prefer to be arrested in Mexico if it is related to him so that he can continue his criminal activity in prison, as he repeated the private agent.
The private agent said that CBP investigators analyzed a database for the registered border crossings to know that Perez spent more than 80 % of his time in Mexico when he was not working on the border. Ortz claimed that Peres was often there because his old girlfriend lived there.
In a wiping at Perez's house in Khwariz, Mexican agents reported that $ 18,000 was found, the private agent said.
The agent said of Perez: “With all measures, he lives in Mexico.”
It is unclear where the supposed Burz profits may be smuggling.
The judge decided that he “undoubtedly” that Perez was a threat to the trip because of the amount of time he spent in Mexico, along with his alleged involvement in the cartel.
