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http://www.adn.com/2011/04/22/182360...restedcop.html

Anchorage officer charged with passport fraud

FALSE IDENTITY: Anchorage patrolman of 6 years is a Mexican national, federal officials say.

By CASEY GROVE

Published: April 23rd, 2011 10:46 PM
Last Modified: April 23rd, 2011 10:47 PM

An Anchorage police officer who took on a false identity that masked his Mexican citizenship has been arrested and charged with passport fraud, federal officials said Friday.

At a news conference Friday, U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler said that patrolman Rafael Espinoza, on the Anchorage police force for about six years, was really Rafael Mora-Lopez, a Mexican national working in the United States illegally.

The man known as Officer Espinoza -- Mora-Lopez, in reality -- was an excellent employee, Police Chief Mark Mew said. The investigation has so far not turned up any information that Mora-Lopez was involved in any other criminal activity outside the case announced Friday, Mew said.

"His problem was he lied his way into the job," Mew said.

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Where was Governor Palin while this was going on?

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According to the latest book from a member of her inner circle, probably complaining that she hated her job and hunting down her political enemies for revenge.