A former city official from the border city of Matamoros remains in federal custody after U.S. law enforcement agents arrested him in connection with the attempted smuggling of cocaine in Texas. Since information about the arrest went public, the City of Matamoros has tried to distance itself from the case, claiming that he had stopped working there months before his arrest.
The incident first began during the Easter holiday, when Luis Miguel Garduno was driving a late-model GMC Acadia from Brownsville north to Corpus Christi, Texas. A criminal complaint filed in the case revealed that when Garduno pulled up to the Javier Vega U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in Kinney County, about 80 miles north of the border. During the stop at the checkpoint, agents sent Garduno to a secondary inspection area where a police drug dog alerted agents to possible drugs inside the vehicle.
Following the dog alert, authorities searched
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