BSO DEPUTY 'IN SHOCK' AFTER ARREST IN STING

The wake up call for Broward Sheriff Office deputy Tony Guillen came at
3:56 a.m. Wednesday, and it was a rough one. Drug Enforcement
Administration agents and sheriff's deputies showed up at his door and
slapped cuffs on him, charging him with conspiracy to possess and
distribute cocaine. Guillen, 33, was one of three law enforcement personnel
arrested for drug trafficking along with 55 other people at Miami
International Airport.

"When the deputies picked him up this morning at his Dade County home he
was in complete shock," said sheriff's spokesman Kirk Englehardt. "He
couldn't believe what was happening to him."

For months, federal agents scrutinized Guillen's every move as he shuttled
from his duty as a corrections deputy at the sheriff's main jail in Fort
Lauderdale to his part-time job as a baggage handler at Miami International
Airport. In March, DEA agents broke the news to Sheriff Ken Jenne, telling
him one of his men was suspected of drug smuggling. Jenne's first reaction:
fire him, Englehardt said.

But doing so would have blown the case the DEA was building, so the two
agencies worked together to net Guillen, who is now suspended without pay.

Guillen, who made about $39,000 a year as a deputy, had never notified the
sheriff's office administration of his a part-time job, a violation of
internal policy.

The two other law enforcement officers netted in the sting are Immigration
and Naturalization Service guard William Segarra, 37, and United States
Agriculture Department investigator Gerardo Capella, both of Miami-Dade
County.

Bill Manning, USDA port director in charge of MIA, said Capella has been
with his department for five years. He was in charge of inspecting plants
and vegetables coming into the country -- a job that gave him security
clearance to go to loading areas and the ramps.

This incident has made increased security a priority in his department,
Manning said. He admits it's hard to keep track of employees within the
building.

I've had accountability problems where we don't know where our employees
were, Manning said.

Kelly Spellman, spokeswoman for the INS, said Segarra has been with the INS
less than five years and was assigned as a guard at the Krome Detention
Center, but declined to comment further.