By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Border Patrol agents are furious that they were tricked into providing “armed security for a cartel wedding” of a convicted drug smuggler who has been banned from Mexico.
The groom, Brian Houston, is awaiting sentencing after he was accused of smuggling large quantities of heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine in February.
“The agents are upset, feel like they were taken advantage of, feel like they were duped,” Joshua Wilson, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 1613, told the San Diego Union-Tribune. “Turns out we provided armed security for a cartel wedding.”
The wedding took place at steel border gate that enables people who cannot cross the border to meet for about three minutes each.
“It’s a statement that love has no borders,” Houston told the newspaper.
A Border Patrol screening did not show any criminal activity, so agents were unaware they were protecting a convicted drug smuggler.
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