José Omar García Arrested for Drug Trafficking

José Omar García, a former police officer in Roma, Texas, surrendered to authorities for trafficking drugs from Mexico to the United States.

44-year-old former officer José Omar García had been a fugitive from federal authorities for more than ten years, accused of drug smuggling.

Border Patrol agents in Texas saw José Omar García on Monday, June 3, 2024, crossing the international bridge from Mexico.

Calmly, the man told them he had a federal arrest warrant for substance trafficking and was surrendering voluntarily.

José Omar García switched from the right side of the law to the wrong one

The surprised Border Patrol agents confirmed his identity and found that indeed, drug enforcement officers had been searching for him for a decade.

Officers from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) went to the border bridge to arrest the fugitive.

On Wednesday, June 5, 2024, former officer José Omar García appeared in his first court hearing as a lawbreaker arrested for drug trafficking.

José Omar García is accused by the DEA of being part of a family network that brought a thousand kilos of marijuana from Mexico to the United States.

The federal case documents against José Omar García, reviewed by MundoNow, reveal the involvement of several family members in the crime.

In 2010, DEA agents began an undercover operation called Operation X-Men to investigate a marijuana trafficking network.

In their investigations, the DEA discovered that two officers from the Rome Police Department (RPD) were involved in the trafficking.

Several DEA detectives at the headquarters in Houston, Texas, had been investigating a Mexican drug cartel south of the border since 2006.

However, agents found that marijuana was being moved into Texas by a network involving two RPD officers.

Roel Roberto García and José Omar García were exemplary agents of the RPD, and the DEA was surprised to discover their double life.

But brothers Roel Roberto García and José Omar García had other family members involved in moving marijuana shipments.

However, Roel García, 75 years old, and Jesús Manuel García, 62 years old, the policemen’s parents, also helped move the drug through Texas.

For at least a year, the DEA had its eye on the still-police officer José Omar García and all his family members in Roma, Texas.

The small town of Roma, Texas, is right on the border with Mexico and adjacent to Ciudad Miguel Alemán in Tamaulipas, Mexico.

According to a confidential police source who spoke to MundoNow under the condition of anonymity, Rome is a ‘hotspot’ in drug trafficking.

Being a small city in southern Texas, many drug traffickers use it as a trafficking area because there is less presence of federal agents.

In a covert police operation in 2010, DEA agents descended on Roma, Texas, to make several drug trafficking arrests.

José Omar García managed to escape the federal raid and fled to Mexico. Other family members were jailed.

In his testimony to the DEA, Jesús Manuel García admitted to having helped his nephews, Roel Roberto García and José Omar García, move marijuana.

According to uncle Jesús Manuel, at his nephews’ orders, he carried 450 kilos of marijuana to hide them in a warehouse in Roma, Texas.