A Douglas man was sentenced to three years probation and 120 hours of community service as part of a plea agreement for smuggling marijuana through the Douglas Port of Entry.

Roy Aguirre, 40, of the 1900 block of 13th Street, was also fined $1,000 with an 84 percent surcharge, which totals $1,840, said Doyle Johnstun, the Chief Criminal Deputy County Attorney in Cochise County.

Aguirre pleaded guilty to smuggling more than two pounds of marijuana but less than four through the port.

On November 23, 2007, at about 4:15 p.m., Aguirre was headed northbound in a blue Ford Expedition at the Douglas Port of Entry when he pulled up to a port inspector.

Aguirre was wearing a T-shirt and a ball cap with the emblem of a local windshield repair company.

He was in Agua Prieta doing windshield repair, and while waiting in the inspection line at the port, he was doing paperwork, courts document stated.

The Customs inspector ordered Aguirre to secondary inspection.

At secondary inspection, Aguirre would not stop talking to the inspectors and was not paying attention to inspectional routine questions, the court document stated.

At that time a sniffing-dog hit positive for narcotics in the inside of the Expedition that he was driving. Aguirre was then escorted to the pat-down room.

Inspectors found eight packages in the center console of the Expedition, 14 packages near the back seat and 19 packages in the bottom of the back seat, totaling 61.2 pounds of marijuana, the document said.

According to the court documents, Aguirre told the inspectors that he was approached by a man named Reyes, a man whom Aguirre had met only a few times.

Reyes asked Aguirre to borrow his Expedition for about half an hour. Reyes told Aguirre that he would give him $1,000 to take the vehicle five blocks to the Auto Zone automotive store on 3rd Street and Pan American, the document stated.

Reyes would then walk to Auto Zone and pick up the vehicle.

Aguirre was arrested without incident.