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Former federal corrections officer charged with bribery
By themonitor.com - Jared Taylor
Published: 05/18/2012

McALLEN, TX — Authorities arrested a former federal corrections officer accused of smuggling a cellphone to an inmate at the East Hidalgo Corrections Center.

Pharr resident Jorge Luis Sandoval, 21, faces one count of bribery in U.S. District Court in McAllen.

A federal grand jury Tuesday returned a one-count indictment against Sandoval; it was made public following his arrest.

Sandoval is charged with one count of accepting a bribe while acting under the authority of the U.S. Marshals Service as a correctional officer. He worked at the East Hidalgo Detention Center in La Villa, where the indictment states a person paid him cash to smuggle a cellphone into the prison for an inmate.

Sandoval is set to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dorina Ramos at an arraignment and detention hearing Friday in federal court in McAllen.

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