Federal authorities are seeking a border officer's wife who failed to show up at her husband's trial in El Paso where she also faced charges related to a human smuggling scheme.
Odet Corchado was arrested last July with her 54-year-old husband, Lawrence, a former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer, and was scheduled to go on trial last week with him.
A jury convicted him of smuggling and bribery charges. The El Paso Times reports a federal judge has revoked her $10,000 bond and a warrant has been issued for her arrest for failing to appear in court.
She's accused of directing people who paid about $2,000 to get into a line at border bridges where her husband worked so they could get into the U.S. without immigration paperwork.
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