Police Beat BlurbsSACRAMENTO, Calif. — The body found July 26 in a car submerged in a waterway between the Sacramento and Mokelumne Rivers may be that of a Lodi transgender woman missing for more than a year, according to a July 28 report in the Stockton Record newspaper. Sacramento County's assistant coroner Ed Smith said the car was registered to Alicia Sandoval, 44, who was last seen leaving a Thornton bar on March 27, 2005, after arguing with friends. A diver hired to find a motor that had fallen off a boat found Sandoval's car and the remains, Smith said. Lodi police had considered her disappearance suspicious, the paper stated. She was intoxicated when she left the Las Lulas bar at 2 a.m. and never returned to her home on North Church Street. In the months before her disappearance, her 1997 Mazda 626 was stolen and after it was recovered its tires were punctured. Sandoval also went by the name Ofelia Santoyo.
