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Former customs officer gets 9 years in drug case

The Arizona Daily Star.

A former customs officer was sentenced to nine years in prison Tuesday after he knowingly allowed a vehicle with 440 pounds of cocaine inside to come into the United States.

Fernando Arango, 52, was working for U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the port of entry in Nogales when he decided to counsel a person who he believed to be a drug trafficker on how to purchase an RV and have it altered to smuggle drugs into the country, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona.

Posted by Editor at February 14, 2007 06:26 AM

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