TEXAS
Sentencing for an associate of a former U.S. Border Patrol Agent who plead guilty to federal bribery charges is scheduled for May, according to officials.
Daniel Hernandez admitted to conspiring to accept money in return for helping to smuggle marijuana and other illegal drugs into the U.S., according to authorities.
Hernandez, 46, of Roseville, California, plead guilty last week to one count of conspiracy to bribe a public official.
According to the plea documents, between 2013 and May 2014, Hernandez and the BPA agreed, and took overt acts, to facilitate the trafficking of illegal drugs, including marijuana, into the United States from Mexico on behalf of a drug trafficking organization.
In exchange for cash payments, they provided an individual they believed to be a member of the drug organization with Border Patrol sensor locations, the locations of unpatrolled roads at or near the U.S.-Mexico border, the number of BPAs working in a certain area, keys to unlock Border Patrol locks located on gates to ranch fences along the border, and Border Patrol radios.
In total, officials maintain that Hernandez accepted approximately $5,000 in cash in return for facilitating shipments of illegal narcotics into Texas without law enforcement detection.