ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) A trial has begun for a man accused of leaking word of wiretaps that were part of an investigation into a southern New Mexican border town gun smuggling ring. The Albuquerque Journal reports that Danny Burnett is on trial in federal court in Albuquerque.
Burnett has pleaded innocent. He's the husband of an assistant U.S. attorney and he is accused to telling a friend who was the chief of police in Columbus about the wiretaps. Another man who allegedly led the gun smuggling ring subsequently fled and remains a fugitive from charges of conspiracy and firearms smuggling.
The government lawyer who is married to the defendant has denied knowing about the wiretaps or telling her husband about the investigation.
