Web Posted: 04/01/2009 7:26 CDT

Border Patrol agent drew map for smugglers
By Lynn Brezosky

By Lynn Brezosky - Express-News BROWNSVILLE — A former Border Patrol agent was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison for helping drug smugglers move a 44-pound cocaine load.

Prosecutors showed that 30-year-old Leonel Morales, of Zapata County, took $9,000 in exchange for telling drug smugglers how to avoid sensors and drawing a map of the best routes for shepherding drugs through the county. He also bragged he could keep other Border Patrol agents out of the way.

Morales made the drug smuggling deal during the summer of 2008, unaware he was being recorded. He pleaded guilty to bribery in January. The sentencing judge in Laredo also ordered him to pay an $11,000 fine.



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