Ex-BP agent sentenced to 13 years for cocaine smuggling, bribery
A former Border Patrol agent was sentenced to more than 13 years in federal prison for cocaine smuggling and bribery.
Juan Pimentel, 48, pleaded guilty to trying to drive what he thought was 110 pounds of cocaine from Tucson to Chicago in November 2015 in exchange for $50,000. The “cocaine” was a dummy substance placed in four black suitcases by an undercover law enforcement officer.
Pimentel’s arrest by a state trooper on Interstate 10 in Marana came a decade after he began smuggling marijuana, Pimentel said at a sentencing hearing Friday in U.S. District Court in Tucson. At times, he would hide bundles of marijuana inside his Border Patrol vehicle.
Over the years, he worked for several different drug traffickers, Pimentel said in response to questions from defense lawyer Mark Williams.
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