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Homeland Security agent in Nogales, accused of helping cartels, gets 2.5 years
June 30, 2012 12:00 am • Tim Steller Arizona Daily Star
Over two days, a federal prosecutor and agents painted Jovana Deas as a drug-cartel spy working as a special agent in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations Office in Nogales.
Assistant U.S. Attorney James Lacey even likened the 34-year-old Douglas native to Aldrich Ames, a CIA officer who spied for the Soviets.
But Deas and her attorney countered during her sentencing hearing that their portrayal was the work of feverish federal imaginations, seeing a major border conspiracy in a few ill-advised favors for family members.
After comparing the stories Friday, U.S. District Judge Cindy Jorgenson didn't buy the cartel-spy image, but neither did she view Deas' actions as innocent mistakes. Deas illegally used her status as a federal agent to access two different databases, looking up criminal-investigative and visa information on about a dozen people over two years, Jorgenson noted. For that, she sentenced the former federal agent on Friday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison.
The judge said Deas' crimes undermined the credibility of American law enforcement while throwing Deas' agency into turmoil to determine the degree of damage done.
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The az daily star daily sob story. They can't even admit that she was convicted only accused. If her mother had been dumped back across border begin, with our country be off. Napolitano just be fired for hiring this crap. Neuter and spay the breeders.
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