McAllen, Texas
A police chief in South Texas has plead guilty to federal charges of helping Mexican drug cartels smuggle drugs across the border.
Police Chief Hernan Guerra Jr., will be sentenced in April. Guerra served as police chief of Sullivan City, located 25 miles west of McAllen. His lawyer, Oscar Alvarez, told the McAllen Monitor that his client “knew from the beginning” that he wouldn’t avoid a conviction in the case.
Last week, Guerra pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy with intent to distribute. According to prosecutors, Guerra conspired to move more than 1 ton of marijuana across the Rio Grande on flat-bottom boats in the Sullivan City area starting in June 2009.
Alvarez said the police chief understands he “abused a position of trust.”
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