A U.S. CBP officer allegedly involved in migrant smuggling on the Texas border was a member of a Mexican drug cartel, a federal agent testified.

A federal judge denied bond for Manuel Perez Jr., a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer, following allehed his involvement with a Mexican drug cartel.P

Security forces in Mexico have arrested a pilot they suspect of working for Los Chapitos, the Mexican cartel run by sons of the jailed drug lord Joaquín '"El Chapo" Guzmán. The pilot, known by the alias of "El Jando", was detained in the northern city of Culiacán, the stronghold of Los Chapitos, in an operation in which one soldier was shot dead.

Manuel Perez, 32, was arrested in his Customs and Border Protection uniform last week following a multi-agency investigation in the US city of El Paso – as a judge warned he was a 'flight risk'

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer was arrested and charged with human smuggling and drug trafficking, according to court documents.