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    U.S. border officer accused of accepting bribes (update)

    U.S. border officer accused of accepting bribes to allow illegal immigrants to cross border

    September 30, 2010 | 6:13 pm

    An inspector for U.S. Customs and Border Protection was arrested on corruption conspiracy charges Thursday, accused of accepting bribes in exchange for allowing vehicles filled with illegal immigrants and marijuana to pass through his inspection lanes at the Otay Mesa and San Ysidro border crossings, authorities said.

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    San Diego Border Inspector Charged With Briberyby The Associated Press

    SAN DIEGO October 16, 2010, 02:56 pm ET

    A border inspector nicknamed "Hammer" pleaded not guilty to taking bribes to help vehicles loaded with illegal immigrants and tons of marijuana get through his lane.

    Lorne Leslie Jones accepted more than $500,000 in bribes from January 2000 to December 2009 to allow illegal immigrants and drugs to cross into the United States from Mexico, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.

    During a brief court hearing, Jones also pleaded not guilty to lying to investigators. He was arrested Sept. 30 while on the job at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.

    Prosecutors are seeking criminal forfeiture of $500,000 from Jones, representing the bribes he received. A second forfeiture allegation seeks $60,000 for a failed attempt in May 2007 to smuggle in 9,397 pounds of marijuana hidden in a tractor trailer, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

    The driver of that truck was arrested after he was directed away from Jones, who was assigned at the time to work with dogs who sniff vehicles as they approach inspection booths.

    The driver told an investigator that he had successfully crossed four times at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry with 5 tons of marijuana in his truck each time.

    Authorities also said Jones worked with an ex-wife and an unidentified investment adviser, both of whom are identified as unindicted coconspirators.

    The indictment said Jones accepted payments between $10,000 and $20,000 per vehicle for allowing vehicles full of illegal immigrants to be smuggled into the U.S. The money was stuffed in paper bags or wrapped in cellophane at clandestine meetings in restaurants and strip malls, authorities said.

    The indictment said Jones would inform the smuggling ring which lanes he was scheduled to work on certain days. The vehicles loaded with drugs or people would then go to those lanes and cross.

    Jones, 46, of Chula Vista, has worked as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspector in San Diego since 1994. He was assigned to both the San Ysidro and Otay border crossings.

    The Border Corruption Task Force, which investigates allegations of wrongdoing among border agencies, began investigating him late last year after a witness revealed that Jones was accepting bribes, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward C. Weiner.

    CBP said 114 current or former employees were arrested or charged with corruption related to their jobs between October 2004 and August. There were 15 cases from October 2009 through August, 29 during the previous 12 months, and 21 the year before.

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    the NatGeo Border Wars just did a show on dirty officers like this guy just last week, and it was also filmed in the san diego area

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    Another one! Hopefully this traitor gets the "hammer!"
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    Deep pockets are on both side of the Border?
    Weapons being supplied to the cartels, are coming from various souces but who reports the weopons being supplied by the MX military?
    The USA governemts' duplicity with MX, ignoring all requests for help to secure our Federal Lands now under cartel control in AZ.
    No surprise that a border Agent will be dirty. It has happened many times before. Why don' twe talk about judges?
    The message over this issue handed down from most directions, from D.C, has been heard loud and clear in MX.
    We will NOT secure our border.
    We are hanging on for the Mid-terms elections, here in AZ, and all border supporters have hope, that at that time, the worm will turn.

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    Corrupt U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Sentenced to More Than Seven Years

    U.S. Attorney’s Office March 24, 2014

    Southern District of California

    Veteran U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Lorne “Hammer” Jones was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Marilyn Huff to seven and a half years in custody for his role in a decade-long crime spree in which he sold his badge to alien-smuggling groups and ultimately to marijuana transportation cells working for Mexican drug cartels. In court, the defendant acknowledged he has waived his right to appeal.

    At today’s sentencing and during the December 2013 trial, federal prosecutors Andrew Schopler and W. Mark Conover described the scheme Jones employed to allow over 30,000 kilograms of drug cartel marijuana and multiple illegal aliens into the United States. Jones’ corruption began by first waving cars and vanloads of aliens and drugs through his lane at the San Ysidro port of entry, and later escalated to smuggling tractor-trailers jammed with marijuana through the commercial port at Otay Mesa.

    Jones, an inspector since 1994, worked at both the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa border crossings and had been a canine officer since the 1990s. He was indicted by a federal grand jury and arrested at work in 2010, charged with conspiracy to commit bribery and to smuggle drugs and aliens.

    A dozen witnesses testified that Jones was on the take, including Michael Taylor, a former colleague and friend who was also being paid by smugglers to corruptly allow contraband into the United States; Jones’ ex-wife, who recruited him to be a smuggler; a friend and financial adviser who testified that the two had discussed ways to hide ill-gotten gains, and who had personally used Jones to smuggle his girlfriend across the border twice; and several of Jones’ co-conspirators.

    Prosecutors also presented evidence from a database that tracks information about people crossing the border—such as license plate numbers, names of those who were inspected and when, and by whom. During trial, prosecutors said the data proved that Jones allowed known load vehicles and drivers for drug trafficking organizations to pass though his lanes for years, without being inspected.

    According to testimony, Jones volunteered to work overtime shifts as a primary inspector so he could wave through vans jammed with aliens and drugs, and trucks full of marijuana. Jones also employed a beeper code system to notify smugglers which one of the 24 inspection lanes he was working when their loads approached the border crossing. But the system failed in 2002 when Jones was randomly and unexpectedly reassigned to another position, and a load driver was forced to abandon his van full of drugs in the inspection line. In a second failure months later, a van stuffed with nearly three tons of marijuana was intercepted in the lane assigned to Jones just a few just car lengths away from him. While Jones’ furiously tried to “waved on” the cars in front of the load vehicle, the driver and passenger of the load vehicle jumped out of the van and attempted to escape from several inspectors who hurried over to apprehend them. Notably, Jones did not try to apprehend the smugglers; rather, as federal prosecutor W. Mark Conover said during closing argument, Jones was frozen “[s]itting in his booth, paralyzed with fear. His load was caught.” This marijuana seizure remains the largest ever at the San Ysidro port of entry.

    “Lorne Jones allowed greed to destroy everything his badge represents,” said U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy. “We hope this outcome serves as a reminder that we will not allow rogue officers to compromise national security and the public trust.”

    Pete Flores, CBP Director of Field Operations in San Diego, said: “The actions that Lorne Jones has been convicted of tarnish the badge he wore, and I’m appreciative of the work done to bring him to justice. My CBP officers are hard-working professionals who are vigilant in their protection of the U.S. border and service of the traveling public. CBP does not tolerate corruption within our workforce and we will seek out and work to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law any employees who commit unethical or unlawful acts that tarnish our badge.”

    FBI Special Agent in Charge Daphne Hearn commented, “When a law enforcement officer violates his oath to protect and serve the citizens of this nation, it undermines the public’s trust. When that happens, the FBI and our law enforcement partners at the Border Corruption Task Force are determined to restore the public’s confidence and trust by rooting out corruption at all levels of government.” The public can report alleged instances of corruption by calling the FBI hotline at 1-877-NO-BRIBE.

    “I am pleased by today’s sentence,” said Dennis M. McGunagle, Special Agent in Charge of Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General. “The DHS OIG is committed to working with our law enforcement partners to identify and aggressively investigate allegations of corruption to protect our borders and the integrity of DHS personnel, programs, and operations.”

    Criminal Case No. 10cr4141-H
    Defendant:

    Lorne Leslie Jones, aka “Hammer”
    Age: 50
    Chula Vista, CA

    Summary of Charges

    Conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371
    Attempted importation of marijuana, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841

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