CBP Officer In San Diego Sentenced To 15 Years For Letting Drug Vehicles Through Otay Mesa

Former CBP officer Diego Bonillo was sentenced to 15 years for coordinating with a trafficking organization to wave drug-laden vehicles through Otay Mesa inspection lanes at least 15 times between Oct. 2023 and Feb. 2024. Prosecutors say he also tipped off smugglers when law enforcement was tailing a vehicle. The case is part of a San Diego cluster of CBP corruption prosecutions that includes guilty pleas by Jesse Clark Garcia and prior convictions tied to allowing drugs and migrants through San Ysidro and Otay Mesa. The pattern raises insider-threat concerns at major land ports of entry.