California border patrol supervisor accused of false alerts on U.S. resident
Source: Reuters
US | Sat Oct 10, 2015 1:28am EDT
California border patrol supervisor accused of false alerts on U.S. resident
SAN DIEGO | BY MARTY GRAHAM
A U.S. Border Patrol supervisor has been charged with creating bogus alerts in the agency's database to force routine stops, sometimes at gunpoint, of a legal U.S. resident who frequently crosses the border with Mexico, court documents said on Friday.
The supervisor at the border station in San Diego, Martin Rene Duran, was trying to force his target to withdraw allegations that his brother-in-law had sexually abused the target's son and stepson, according to a federal complaint.
Duran was charged with falsifying records, depriving the victim of his civil rights under color of law and illegal transportation of firearms that investigators said he had lied to obtain, according to the complaint unsealed on Friday.
Duran's brother-in-law, Raymundo Estrada Figueroa, was charged with two counts of international travel for illicit sex in the same complaint.
Duran's target was a Mexican citizen who holds legal residency in the United States and reported to Mexican police that Figueroa had sexually abused both his son and his stepson in Tijuana, the court documents said.
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