Rep. continues lobby for border patrol agents

Huntington Beach Rep. Dana Rohrabacher ratcheted up the pressure Wednesday in the controversial case of two convicted border patrol agents, demanding that a U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case either “testify or resign.”

Rohrabacher has been lobbying for months to get agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean pardoned. They are serving jail time for not following procedures when they shot a drug smuggler who was fleeing across the Mexican border.

On Wednesday, Rohrabacher revealed documents that he said show the federal government allowed the drug smuggler, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, to cross the border freely, even after he may have brought more drugs into the U.S.

U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton and his team lied to the jury in the agents’ trial, Rohrabacher said in a statement. Sutton has refused to testify in an upcoming hearing on the case, the statement said.

Efforts to reach Sutton were unsuccessful.

— Alicia Robinson