Border Patrol stop in 2008 tied to USD bribery case

By Kristina Davis
Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 2 p.m.
Reported by staff writers Kristina Davis, Brent Schrotenboer and Mark Zeigler.

SAN DIEGO — A suitcase stuffed with $104,900 in cash, a baggie of pot and driving directions to Humboldt County.

That’s what Border Patrol agents found in a car at the Interstate 5 checkpoint in San Clemente on Jan. 28, 2008. It’s also the evidence that led to what federal authorities listed as the first “overt actâ€