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Former border agent sentenced for taking bribes

Posted on November 6, 2013 by GCD

Assistant U.S. Attorney Dominic Lanza said the case was “one of the most serious” Border Patrol corruption cases “in a long time.”

“This is such serious misconduct, such tarnishing of the oath,” Lanza said in asking Rosenblatt to sentence Herrera-Chiang to 15 years in prison.—AZCentral

PHOENIX, Nov. 6 (UPI) — A U.S. judge in Phoenix Wednesday sentenced former Border Patrol agent Ivhan Herrera-Chiang to 15 years in prison for taking bribes to help drug smugglers.

Herrera-Chiang pleaded guilty in April to four felony bribery counts for taking money in exchange for information on border security enforcement, including the combination to locks on U.S.-Mexico border crossing gates, The Arizona Republic reported.

U.S. District Judge Paul Rosenblatt told Herrera-Chiang during sentencing that the ex-border agent had “done about the worst thing a law-enforcement agent could do, especially a Border Patrol agent.”

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