Smuggler arrested during Operation Pick-Off sentenced to 8 months in prison

McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A drug smuggler arrested during Operation Pick-Off was sentenced to eight months in prison Thursday. The government deported Miguel Casas Quevedo, 48, of Ciudad Mier, Tamaulipas, in 2016, when Border Patrol caught him smuggling about 420 pounds of marijuana across the Rio Grande. At some point, Casas illegally returned to South [...]