Two UPS Inc. part-time workers in South Texas and a relative have pleaded guilty to using company vehicles to smuggle drugs by land and air.
UPS spokeswoman Susan Rosenberg said Friday that both male workers were fired last year amid the investigation.
Prosecutors said drug shipments went to Minnesota, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, Ohio, Michigan and New York. Parcels were smuggled by ground and through airports in Harlingen and McAllen.
Reymundo Abel Brown Jr., Mario Enrique Patlan and his daughter Cristina Patlan pleaded guilty Thursday in Brownsville.
Brown and Mario Patlan pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana and cocaine. Cristina Patlan pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
The men could get 40-year prison terms. Cristina Patlan faces up to five years.
