Carlos Alberto Cedano Filippini was arrested along with his wife and two other people during a routine anti-drugs raid in Los Angeles. He is a police commander in Baja California, a border state from which drugs flow into the United States.
Two of his deputy commanders were shot dead there last Saturday. The US administration has made much of co-operation with Mexico against drugs.
It has offered assistance to help rid the Mexican police force of suspected ties to the cartels which operate out of Baja California.
Commander Filippini, 34, was arrested along with his wife, another Mexican policeman and a third man, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said.
US Drug Enforcement Administration agents and Los Angeles police officers were involved in the arrests, which were not specifically targeted at the police chief.
The DEA "didn't expect to get who we got", a spokeswoman said. Commander Filippini is the top agent in Mexicali, Baja California's state capital, for Mexico's Federal Agency of Investigation (AFI). His two top deputies, Gerardo Antonio Mendez Reyes and Javier Gerardo Duran Trevino, were shot to death in the city last Saturday night. No arrests have been made in connection with their killings.
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