Angelica Torres was getting ready for bed when someone knocked on her door at her home in Delano. Four Tulare County Sheriff's deputies along entered her home.

"I got surprised, I jumped out of bed and ran over and asked them 'What's going on?' " said Torres.

She was told to get dressed, placed in handcuffs and arrested.

"My daughter approaches me, she starts crying and she goes 'Mom, what's going on?' To my surprise, I didn't even know they kept telling me nothing," said Torres.

She was taken to Tulare County Jail in Visalia where she was booked, fingerprinted and photographed. Tulare County sheriff's investigators told her she was being arrested for possession and transporting drugs in Tulare County some nine years ago.

Investigators had been looking for Angelica Marie Torres whose birth date is 10-27-1970, weighs 120 pounds and is 5-foot-5 with blonde hair.

Angelica Torres of Delano is named Angelica Maria Torres with a birth date of 10-1-1967. But she is 5-foot-11 and weighs 208 pounds and has black hair. Despite her protests that she was not the suspect, she was thrown in jail.

Once out on bail, it would take numerous trips from Delano to Visalia to clear her name. She showed investigators her driver's license, her citizenship papers, certificate of baptism all to no avail.

"It is not uncommon for a person to give a false name, a false birth date or a false address when they are arrested," said Tulare County Assistant District Attorney Don Gallian.

Tulare County Public Defender Stephen Prekoski was assigned to the case and tried to clear up the misunderstanding, but it was not easy.

"It's kind of like a spider web which is hard to kick yourself free from the system until the system lets go of you," said Prekoski.

Torres continued trying to explain to anyone who would listen that she was not the suspect being sought. And to complicate things, Tulare County Sheriff's Department wound up misplacing her fingerprints.

"Somehow there was an error when she was being booked and no prints were obtained," the prosecutor in the case told the court.

Hearing that, the judge dismissed the case against Angelica Maria Torres of Delano.

"I'm sorry for the inconvenience," said Judge Gary Paden.

Paden refused to grant a request by the prosecutor to have fingerprints of Angelica Torres taken a second time. Torres walked out of Tulare County Superior Court a happy and relieved woman.

"I feel happy they found it wasn't me, that my record's going to be cleaned and that's it's not going to haunt me in the future. And hopefully this doesn't ever happen to anyone," said Torres.