Migrant smuggler pleads guilty for bribing former Border Patrol agent

Published August 15, 2022 11:20 AM

TUCSON, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - A man from Mexico pleaded guilty for Conspiracy to Commit Bribery and Smuggling; he'll be sentenced on October 25, 2022.

Luis Alfredo Quintero-Gonzalez, 36, was found to have bribed a former Border Patrol agent with about $65,000 to smuggle migrants between August and December 2019.

Quintero-Gonzalez admitted to conspiring and taking undocumented immigrants across the border while working with the agent.

The smuggler may receive a maximum penalty of five years in prison plus a $250,000 fine and the agent was charged separately but pleaded not guilty.

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