FBI: Border agent hid deported father

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- A U.S. Border Patrol agent in San Diego hid his father, a twice-deported illegal immigrant, in his house and lied about it, authorities allege.

Marcos Gerardo Manzano Jr., 26, was arrested Monday at the Border Patrol station in Imperial Beach, Calif., the FBI told the Los Angeles Times.

When an FBI Swat team raided his home in the border neighborhood of San Ysidro Tuesday, his father, Marcos Gerardo Manzano Sr., 46, was gone. Another illegal immigrant there was arrested.

Manzano Sr. was convicted of a marijuana offense in October 2006 and deported to Mexico, a criminal complaint filed in San Diego federal court states. The FBI is seeking him as a fugitive.

Starting in September 2009, Manzano Sr. was seen regularly coming and going from his son's home, the complaint said. Manzano Jr. allegedly told a federal investigator he had had no contact with his father, although he admitted knowing he was a deported felon.

Manzano Jr. is charged with harboring illegal aliens and lying to federal investigators and is to be arraigned Wednesday.