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Posted on 11/16/2025 3:07:37 AM PST by Libloather
LOS ANGELES — A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to working with Mexican traffickers to bring drugs into the U.S., officials said Thursday.
Diego Bonillo, 30, pleaded guilty in July to multiple charges, including conspiracy to import controlled substances such as cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin.
As part of his plea deal, he admitted to using his position to allow drug-filled cars into the U.S. from Mexico without inspection. He allowed at least 75 kilograms of fentanyl, 11.7 kilograms of methamphetamine, and more than 1 kilogram of heroin into the country, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego said in a news release Thursday.
Prosecutors said in sentencing documents that Bonillo was using a secret phone to alert the drug trafficking group which lanes he would be overseeing at the Tecate and Otay Mesa border crossings so he could ensure their entry without inspection.
Agents determined that Bonillo was part of the scheme no later than October 2023 and continued until April 2024, allowing at least 15 vehicles to enter uninspected, prosecutors said.
Bonillo used his payments to travel internationally, purchase luxury gifts, attempt to purchase property in Mexico, and spend time at the Hong Kong Gentlemen’s Club in Tijuana, Mexico, prosecutors said.
He was sentenced Nov. 7 to 15 years in federal prison.
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And he’ll have only himself to blame.
Every drug trafficker Ned’s to be seen as a killer.
HOORAY LEOs / prosecutors for putting this scumbag behind bars.
His name and face along with his history needs to be in every CBP office in the country. Along with where he can be found until 2040.
His picture should also be in the news article, but it isn’t. I guess the privacy-invading mugshots are only for peasants.
Should have been put in a Mexican prison.
Disgusting.
Very light sentence, his federal position as a Customs officer and the crimes he committed warrant the worst penalties.
It doesn’t say it in the article, but Kash Patel’s FBI played a major part in this...
I correctly guessed he was Hispanic before I saw his name…..
His crime wasn’t that he aided and abetted drug traffickers, his crime is that he was freelancing and aiding and abetting those working in competition against the correct group of drug traffickers.
These idiots always get caught when they live a life of extreme luxury on a working-man's salary - and think no one will notice.
You wonder how many Diegos there are.
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