IV PRESS ONLINE.com: "MEXICALI P.D. CONFIRMS SUSPECT IS ONE OF THEIRS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Mexicali police official confirmed Friday a woman arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol and charged with immigrant smuggling is a Mexicali police officer. Tonatiuh Beltran, spokesman for the Mexicali police agency known as the Public Security Department, said in an interview Friday that one of its officers, Brenda Alicia Lucero-Roa, has not reported for duty since Tuesday. It is on Tuesday that Lucero-Roa, 35, a Mexicali resident, was taken into custody by a U.S. Border Patrol special anti-smuggling unit. She and a man with her, Sergio Fausto Lomeli, 38, of Niland, were arraigned in federal court in Imperial County on Wednesday on smuggling charges.") (January 17, 2004) (Read More...)