An Arizona correctional officer and Army National Guardsman has been charged with smuggling meth and heroin across the U.S.-Mexico border while his wife and children were in the car.
Fernando Urrutiaguillen, 34, of Chandler, Arizona, is accused of smuggling 50.7 pounds of methamphetamine and 2.2 pounds of heroin across the border, stashed away in the gas tank of his vehicle, the Orange County, California District Attorney’s OfficeOn Tuesday, Mr. Urrutiaguillen was pulled over in Irvine, California, with his wife and three children in the vehicle with him.
“This individual not only put his wife and three young children in incredible danger, he put another black mark on every upstanding law enforcement officer … we refuse to allow a correctional officer to get away with leading a double life making money as a drug trafficker one day and keeping watch over drug dealers behind bars the next,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said.
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