Posted on 03/15/2011 10:29:32 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
A Cameron County sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to gun smuggling charges.
Jesus A. Longoria, 31, appeared Monday before U.S. District Judge Hilda Tagle where he was formally sentenced.
The U.S. Attorney's Office reports that Longoria admitted that while assigned in May to the Veteran's International Bridge and Gateway International Bridge he tried to send and export 13 semi-automatic firearms from the U.S. into Mexico.
The weapons were to be used by the Mexican drug cartel. In exchange for letting the guns through, Longoria was paid $4,000.
Longoria resigned from his position with the sheriff's department on the day of his arrest, which was Nov. 1.
Semi-Autos only apparently so he didn’t go to Wal-Mart and purchase fully-auto versions like the rest of us Texans do...
Every time a dirty cop goes to prison, another angel gets it’s wings.
That will be one less liar in Texas courts.
Something doesn't add up here. Being paid $4K for 13 guns come to $308 per gun. Was he stealing and selling guns from the evidence room?
I don’t think he purchased the guns...I think that was his fee for letting them pass undetected.
These guys are in a hard place on the border. The cartel will contact them and offer them “plata o plomo” which literally means “silver or lead”. Should we bribe you or kill you and your family?
They need to do a better job of rotating people in and out so that they are harder for the cartel to intimidate / flip.
Agree with willyd, that was only to get them across the US side of the bridges. Someone on the Mexican side had to be paid off too.
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