Border Patrol Agent Accused of Taking Bribes to Let Drugs Into San Diego

SAN DIEGO—A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer has been charged on July 3 in an indictment unsealed with allegedly accepting bribes to allow drug-laden vehicles across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Leonard Darnell George is charged along with several others with conspiracy to import and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego. George is separately charged with receiving bribes, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
“The indictment alleges that Officer George broke the very drug trafficking laws that he was supposed to enforce,” San Diego U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman said in a statement….