Smuggler blames Border Patrol for deadly accident




By Ray Huard
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

12:18 p.m. August 1, 2008

EL CAJON – A convicted immigrant smuggler Friday blamed Border Patrol agents for causing a head-on crash that killed two people, but a judge said he was wrong and sentenced him to prison for 33 years to life.
In a letter read in court by an interpreter, Daniel Cardiola Lopez said the June 2007 crash in rural East County was caused by agents who put a spiked strip in the roadway to stop him.


“They cause the accident, then wash off their hands and blame the driver,â€