Border Patrol official charged with raping female agent avoided agency discipline with personal connections
by Anna Giaritelli
| December 20, 2019 03:43 PM
A former senior Border Patrol official who is facing criminal charges for the kidnapping and rape of a younger female colleague in May did not face internal discipline over the incident and instead was permitted to retire because of his personal connections and status.
In July, Gustavo Zamora was charged in Tucson, Arizona, with one count of felony kidnapping and three felony counts of sexual assault. He retired later the same month in what four officials based in his home and work regions described as a “quick†manner.
“He has not faced any discipline at all,†said Art Del Cueto, president of the National Border Patrol Council’s Tucson chapter. Eight other U.S. Border Patrol officials agreed that he had not been disciplined, should have been, and that lower-ranking agents would not have been treated so leniently.
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