Customs and Border Protection agent arrested for possession of cocaine
Police arrested U.S. Customs and Border Protection Services official with possession of drugs early Thursday.
According to officials, 53 year-old Willie Cooper, a 35 year veteran of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Services, was stopped for a traffic offense on Northwest 12th avenue and 5th street, when the officer found “smoke still coming out of his crack cocaine pipe in his car.”
Cooper was charged with possession of cocaine, possession of paraphernalia, and resisting arrest with violence. “It’s really an insult to all the law abiding, hard working officers that are securing and protecting our nation’s border everyday. At a minimum, it is very very disappointing,” said special agent Zachary Mann.
Until the arrest, Cooper had been working at Port Everglades. Copper was placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the criminal charges placed against him.
