A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer is accused taking bribes to allow vehicles loaded with deadly street drugs, including fentanyl and heroin, to cross into the U.S. from Mexico.
Darnell George, known to his co-conspirators as the"Goalie," is accused of leading a crew of seven others in an operation that allowed vehicles containing stashes of hard drugs including fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine across the border from October of 2021 through June of 2022, according to court documents filed by the United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of California.
George faces a charge of receiving bribes by a public official, and two conspiracy charges for trafficking and distributing drugs. Two other defendants have been in named in the group: Mario Gutierrez and Estaban Galvan. NBC 7 hoped to learn more about the case against George in court on Thursday, but his detention hearing was postponed to July 11.NBC 7 did, however, speak to Victor Alfaro, a professor at the Center for Latin American Studies at San DIego State University, about the U.S. and Mexico’s binational relationship.
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