South Florida-based customs workers sentenced for drug smuggling - DominicanToday.com: "Two federal customs agents and a transportation safety supervisor based in South Florida have been sentenced for their roles in a drug-smuggling operation that brought heroin and cocaine into the country, The Sun Sentinel reported this week.
According to the online paper, the three –a husband and wife and her sister– flew to the Dominican Republic to work out details of the scheme with drug dealers. It called for them to look away as smugglers entered the country through the Fort Lauderdale and Miami international airports.
The three sentenced last week were Cindy Moran-Sanchez, a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at Miami International Airport, who got 14 years; her husband, Jose Sanchez, a former Transportation and Safety Administration supervisor at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, who got 11 years; and Moran-Sanchez's sister Elizabeth Moran-Toala, a customs agent at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, who got 10 years, The Sun Sentinel said."

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