A highly respected U.S. anti-narcotics agent has pled guilty to working with the same Colombian drug cartel he was formerly commissioned to investigate.
Former DEA agent Irizarry pled guilty to working with a Colombian cartel (Photo: Darwinek, CC SA-BY 3.0) Jose Irizarry had faced charges relating to no less than 19 federal offences, which included bank fraud and diverting millions of dollars in drug money out from under the control of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
On Monday, Irizarry pled guilty to all counts at a court in New York, as reported by the Associated Press (AP).
