Immigration Inspectors Indicted

PHOENIX (AP) -- Three current inspectors and one former inspector for the
Immigration and Naturalization Service have been indicted on bribery charges,
federal officials announced Tuesday.

Three of the indicted are accused of allowing vehicles believed to have been
transporting cocaine to pass through the Nogales port of entry in exchange for
cash. The fourth is alleged to have taken money to approve immigration
documents.

The indictments, along with five others of alleged drug smugglers, were the
result of a special investigation of public corruption by the Southwest Border
Task Force of the Nogales port of entry.

``Corruption will not be tolerated and this case is an example of the success
that cooperative law enforcement can have,'' said U.S. Attorney Jose de Jesus
Rivera said.


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