Drug Dealer Border Agents Were After Now Being Prosecuted --- Finally
To the Editor:
On November 15, 2007, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton announced the arrest of Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila on drug smuggling charges. Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, the drug smuggler that testified against Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, was finally arrested for smuggling drugs at a U.S. port of entry. It's Aldrete-Davila's third arrest.
After appearing in federal court in El Paso on Friday afternoon, Aldrete-Davila now faces two counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, one count of conspiracy to import a controlled substance and one count of conspiracy to possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute. The alleged offenses happened between June 1, and November 30, 2005. (According to http://thenewamerican.com/node/1664, federally imprisoned Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean met up with Aldrete-Davila at the border in February of 2005; at that time he was trying to smuggle $1 million worth of marijuana into the United States.) Aldrete-Davila could be jailed or heavily fined or both for his latest smuggling attempts. Unfortunately, Johnny Sutton will be the prosecutor, which certainly seems like a conflict of interest in this case.
Incredibly, in the press release concerning Aldrete-Davila's arrest, Sutton points to the supposed "crimes" of Ramos and Compean with this statement: "Just as Aldrete's alleged illegal conduct did not excuse the crimes committed by Compean and Ramos, likewise, their crimes will not excuse his."