HEBER --- Sheriff's authorities arrested a Mexicali man here last night on suspicion of stealing a canal gate belonging to the Imperial Irrigation District, an Imperial County Sheriff's investigator said today.
The suspect, Marcelo Ibarra Esquivel, 27, was arrested on suspicion of possession of stolen property and grand theft following his 11 p.m. arrest at the southeast end of Heber, said sheriff's investigator Cheryl Fowler. Esquivel who was driving a pickup truck was pulled over for a mechanical violation by a sheirff's sergeant on patrol, Fowler said.
---- By SILVIO J. PANTA, staff writer
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