'Narcos' Style: Ex-ICE Agent Gets 3 Years for Shielding Colombian Trafficker
The former customs agent managed to get an indictment dismissed after changing a federal database for an accused Colombian drug kingpin.
February 09, 2018 at 02:14 PM
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The sentencing of a corrupt former Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent on Friday capped a case that reads like a “Narcos” episode.
Christopher V. Ciccione II, 52, a father of six from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, admitted in a plea agreement that he accepted bribes to arrange the dismissal of a 1996 Miami indictment for Jose Bayron Piedrahita Ceballos, a longtime fugitive drug kingpin whose work dates back to the Cali cartel.
Apparently, all it took was $20,000 in cash, a lavish dinner at the upscale Pesquera Jaramillo restaurant with a Colombian pop star and army colonel, a party at a Bogota Marriott hotel and prepaid prostitutes described as “three divine women,” prosecutors charged.
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