Border Patrol agent pleads guilty to harboring immigrants
A Laredo-based U.S. Border Patrol agent who dated a woman who was using fraudulent work documents pleaded guilty Monday to harboring immigrants who were in the country illegally.
Border Patrol agents conducting surveillance on a house in Laredo in July 2013 saw agent Roberto Cantu Rodriguez, 35, drive up in a Border Patrol vehicle, according to court documents.
It turned out that Rodriguez’s girlfriend and five other immigrants who were in the country illegally were living at the house. This summer, agents detained those residents and in September, Rodriguez was indicted.
Four voluntarily returned to Mexico and two were prosecuted for illegal reentry, according to court records. Rodriguez had been paying his girlfriend’s bills and rent, according to the plea agreement.
He’ll face up to five years in prison and and a $250,000 fine when sentenced. That date has not been set.
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