A Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent has been indicted on 24 felony charges, including 10 counts of child sex trafficking, the latest in a series of sexual-misconduct convictions or charges against U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees in Arizona.
Willcox border agent Bart Conrad Yager, 39, was also charged with six counts of “pandering,” or encouraging someone to engage in prostitution; one count of attempted child sex trafficking; and two counts of fraud, between July 2023 and March 2024 in Cochise County, indictments from the Cochise County Attorney’s Office show.
On Thursday, county prosecutors also charged Yager with five drug-related felonies: possession or use of the anabolic steroid trenbolone and testosterone; sale or transportation of trenbolone and testosterone; and possession of drug paraphernalia, all in 2025.
A CBP spokesman said the agency’s Office of Professional Responsibility arrested Yager in Willcox on June 17, and executed a search warrant based on allegations of child sex trafficking, fraudulent schemes and pandering.
They only hire the best (rapists)!
A decade ago, Yager was the suspect in a now-closed Tucson, Arizona rape case. But CBP never investigated the allegations against Yager, according to a CBP special agent’s statement filed in Cochise County Superior Court. The statement was first reported by the Herald/Review Media.
He's by no means alone, though:
Yager is the latest of several Arizona-based CBP employees, including border agents and a port officer in CBP’s Office of Field Operations, who have been charged with or convicted of sexual misconduct and other crimes.
Yuma Sector border agent Ramon Marquez, 31, was arrested in May and has been charged with 15 felonies, including 14 counts of sexual conduct with a 16-year-old between December 2024 and April 2025, and one count of sexual exploitation of a minor, such as filming or photographing the encounter, according to a May 15 indictment in Yuma County Superior Court.
CBP port officer Aaron Thomas Mitchell, 30, was sentenced to 27 years in prison in March, after being convicted on federal charges of abducting and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old Douglas middle school student in 2022. Mitchell now faces state charges in Cochise County.
An investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Douglas Police Department found Mitchell approached the student as she waited for school to start, identified himself as a law enforcement officer and ordered her into his car. He then drove her to his home, where he sexually assaulted her for hours, according to a U.S. Justice Department statement.
In January, former Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent Efren Lopez Cornejo was sentenced to two counts of lifetime probation, but no jail time, after he accepted an October 2024 plea agreement, admitting to one count of child abuse and one count of indecent exposure.
Lopez Cornejo was initially charged with 14 felonies in 2021, including child molestation, sexual abuse of a minor and sexual conduct with a minor under 15, which allegedly took place mostly between 2011 and 2017. The two victims were family members, and one was 9 when the alleged abuse started, an interim complaint said.
As you might already have gleaned, it's part of the CBP culture:
Critics and civil rights advocates say a long-standing lack of accountability and weak oversight within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — the parent agency of CBP and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE — has meant agents haven’t faced consequences for abusive behavior, sexual harassment of colleagues and excessive use of force in the field.
“Abuse by CBP agents is not an issue of just a few rogue agents, but is a systemic problem across the agency that has existed from its very start,” said Ricky Garza, border policy counsel for the Southern Border Communities Coalition, which advocates for “rational” immigration policies, humane and accountable border-enforcement practices and quality of life in border communities.
“The agency has a longstanding culture of impunity, of racism, of abuse and use of force against people in the border region,” Garza said...
Hmm Funny that the intense vetting process in the DHS didn't catch this guy. Maybe Spec Ops Barbie will remind us that these personality trait's are a feature in her army. Not a bug. After all, if you're willing to hurt a child, there is no such thing as an unlawful order.
ReplyDelete🤪 Yah! That certainly tracks, doesn't it? The Psychopath-in-Chief, who is above law, hired a dog-murdering psychopath to lead a group of psychopaths so she can clear out any normies she finds and hire more psychopaths and they can all be above law together!!
ReplyDeleteICYMI, last week was another Noem/DHS declaration that there is no law but them! Noem went to the Nashville Airport to announce TSA will not require shoe removal, and have expedited lines for certain groups.* Because Noem announced it as a press conference, TN State Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville), one of the famed Tennessee Three kicked out of the legislature by GQP and immediately returned to the leg by his constituents, wanted to attend.
Jones didn't want to get the Alex Padilla treatment, so he checked with the
MNAA-The Municipal Nashville Airport Authority and the local police. When he arrived, he identified himself to the Secret Service and was allowed into the event.
BUT, when she arrived, Noem sent her attack dog, DHS Comms Dir. Thomas Wackman, out to sweep the room for "radical dems." And, Wackman had the elected State Rep. removed!!
But, it was what Wackman said in a concurrent interview that I find chilling:
"[Jones] has the right to represent his district, but he doesn't have the right to trespass on private property,. He wasn't invited. This is an invite-only event for media."
🤬🤬 Jones was permitted on the private property by the owner/operators of the property, the MNAA!! In effect, Wackman is claiming that every piece of property Noem stands on is hereby NATIONALIZED by the Federal government for the amount of time she stands there and she is in full control of it!! Wow! Power play much?! 😱🤬
* Kristi Noem: Undocumented immigrants 'go home'; state rep. ejected from Nashville airport event https://share.google/SCgDML9ejnldvtshF