A Cameron Park man is behind bars for his alleged role in a scheme to smuggle heroin inside footwear.
U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested Procopio Rodriguez on federal drug charges on Wednesday.
A criminal complaint shows that the 27-year-old Cameron Park man led Jessica Gayle Smith into Matamoros where she picked up a pair of boots filled with two pounds of heroin.
Customs officers arrested Smith when she came back into the United States at Brownsville’s B&M International Bridge.
ICE agents arrested Donna Natalie Bocanegra last week for her role in orchestrating the deal and agreeing to move the drugs north.
A criminal complaint shows that Rodriguez admitted to smuggling heroin inside a pair of boots in a separate incident.
The Cameron Park man appeared before U.S. Magistrate Court Judge Felix Recio on Thursday morning.
Judge Recio denied bond for Rodriguez until a Monday afternoon hearing.
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