A 14-year veteran Bexar County (Tex.) sheriff’s dispatch supervisor has been arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and accused of running the criminal histories of potential partners in a drug smuggling operation in which she was involved. Agents arrested Barbara Villareal, 44, her husband and a neighbor, and recovered 800 pounds of marijuana from a tractor-trailer. Her arrest affadavit also said Villereal had used her position to warn her drug partners when law enforcement officers were operating near their stash house. Villareal was jailed, but then posted $50,000 bond. The sheriff’s department put her on 10 days paid leave, and a spokesperson said they would immediately begin termination actions.
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