KVOA: "A former Santa Cruz County Sheriff who allegedly used his position to smuggle nearly 5 kilograms of cocaine across the U.S./Mexico border was sentenced today in U.S. District Court.
Jesus Rene Contreras, 31, who was a six-year veteran of the Sheriff's Department, was sentenced to six years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine - he pleaded guilty to the charge back in July 2011.
Court documents reveal Contreras worked with Ernesto Castro and another individual to use Contreras' position as a deputy sheriff to transport cocaine past the I-19 Border Patrol checkpoint. On March 2, 2010, he drove about 4.9 kilograms of cocaine past the checkpoint while in uniform and driving his official patrol vehicle." read more
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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