Drug Dealer Shot By Border Agents Indicted

Story developing and more will be available tomorrow, but for now here's Sara A. Carter's account in the Washington Times.

A Mexican drug trafficker shot by two Border Patrol agents who later were convicted of the shooting was arraigned today on numerous drug smuggling charges in federal court in El Paso, Texas.

Osvaldo Aldrete Davila is charged with conspiring to possess and distribute hundreds of pounds of marijuana in the U.S. between June and November in 2005. He was arrested yesterday at an international port of entry in El Paso and appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Mesa.

Aldrete Davila, who admitted to smuggling drugs in a 2005 immunity deal in the prosecution of the Border Patrol agents' case, has been seen entering different hospitals in El Paso under federal escort since the Oct. 19 sentencing of the former agents, sources close to the case told The Washington Times.