A high school senior in Southern California was charged in federal court last week with recruiting his fellow classmates to smuggle drugs from Mexico to the United States, which federal officials say is part of a larger problem affecting the region. "I can assure you Phillip Webb is not the only high school student recruiting other high school students," Assistant U.S. Attorney Sherri Walker-Hobson told Fox 5 San Diego. Barba is accused of recruiting the high school student to smuggle the meth across the U.S. border from Mexico earlier that day. Walker-Hobson told Fox 5 that authorities are seeing more students recruited by drug cartels at schools in San Diego County, primarily in the South Bay. Six students were arrested for smuggling in March, including one student said he did it at least 20 times, according to Walker-Hobson.

Source: Fox News May 13, 2018 18:45 UTC