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Maria Villarroel

Two Border Patrol officers in San Diego arrested for working with cartels, passing drugs through the border

The two officers were arrested in May for allowing vehicles loaded with fentanyl, cocaine and more to cross the border unchecked (Credit: Getty Images)

Two border patrol officers in San Diego have pleaded not guilty after they were arrested for allegedly working for an unnamed Mexican drug trafficking organization, allowing vehicles loaded with fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine to cross the border unchecked.

Details of the case had previously not been reported, but were partially laid out in a search warrant affidavit unsealed Tuesday in federal court in San Diego, as well as in other filings by prosecutors in recent months, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune, which originally reported the story.

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