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They were the perfect couple – in crime.

He was a federal officer who used his badge to smuggle guns and money through the airport; she was the faithful wife who was willing to stand by her man and assist him in a marriage fraud scheme.

Mr. Devon Samuels, 45, and Ms. Keisha Jones, 30, of Stockbridge, pleaded guilty Thursday in Atlanta’s federal court, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Mr. Samuels pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder drug money and attempting to smuggle guns onto an airplane. Mr. Samuels and his wife pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit marriage fraud, spokesman Mr. Patrick Crosby said.

“Our citizens expect the federal government and its agents to protect the borders, and not use their badges as personal gateways for getting cash,” U.S. Attorney Mrs. Sally Quillian Yates said. “In this case, a federal customs officer smuggled guns and drug money for people he thought were international narcotics traffickers.

“At about the same time, he and his wife were running a corrupt marriage business on the side. Such officers can expect to see federal prison.”

Mr. Samuels was a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer when he was arrested in connection with three undercover sting operations, which focused on the smuggling of drug money and guns through Atlanta’s Hartfield-Jackson International Airport, Mr. Crosby said.

On Nov. 3, an undercover officer pretending to be a drug money launderer gave Mr. Samuels about $25,000.

The officer used his badge to bypass security and smuggled the money through the airport to Jamaica where he delivered it to another undercover officer posing as an international drug trafficker, Mr. Crosby said.

He did it again on Nov. 19, this time smuggling $50,000 to undercover police officers in

Then on Nov. 30, Mr. Samuels smuggled five firearms and about $20,000 in alleged drug money into the airport and gave the items to a second undercover officer, the spokesman said. She told him she was going to transport the firearms and money to Arizona for a meeting with members of a Mexican drug cartel.

Police said the marriage fraud scheme occurred a year earlier.

In November 2009, Mr. Samuels used his knowledge of immigration policies to assist Mr. Carlton Ferguson, 35, and Ms. Dahlia McLaren, 30, of Decatur, to deceive U.S. immigration authorities into believing that their sham marriage was genuine, Mr. Crosby said.

Mr. Samuels and his wife were also paid to falsely complete the immigration paperwork necessary for Ms. McLaren to obtain U.S. citizenship through her sham marriage to Mr. Ferguson, the spokesman said.

Mr. Ferguson and Ms. McLaren pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges and are await sentencing.

Mr. Samuels face up to $500,000 in fines and up to 20 years in prison for conspiring to launder money; and up to $250,000 in fines and up to 20 years in prison for attempting to carry weapons on to an aircraft.

Mr. Samuels and his wife, Ms. Jones, face a $250,000 fine and up to five years in prison for conspiring to commit marriage fraud.

They are scheduled to be sentenced June 2.