Denisa Alicka

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A reserve officer for the Linndale Police Department was one of three people arrested Tuesday as part of an investigation into dealing marijuana and MDMA drugs that came from Canada and were sold in the Cleveland area.

Jonida Alicka, 28, and her sister Denisa, 26, both of Rocky River, face charges for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute schedule I drugs. Both were arrested by the FBI and made their first appearances in federal court on Tuesday.

They are charged as part of a scheme that included smuggling large amounts of drugs over the U.S.-Canada border. State and federal authorities have been investigating the conspiracy for at least a year and have used multiple cooperating witnesses who recorded phone calls, wore wires and purchased drugs, according to a criminal complaint.

Rinald "Chuck" Turhani, 37, a trucking business owner and Denisa's boyfriend, was also arrested Tuesday in his home state of Michigan. He is accused of bringing the drugs over the border. Leka Konini, who is accused of being Turhani's partner, is still at large.

The Alickas are in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. A detention hearing for the sisters is scheduled for Friday. Turhani will appear in front of a judge in Detroit on Wednesday.

The criminal complaint says that Jonida Alicka is a student at Cleveland State University and has worked one day a week for Linndale police since 2013. Her attorney did not return a phone call Tuesday, and a message left for the department was not returned.

Joe Dubyak, an attorney representing Denisa Alicka, said he was still reviewing the accusations.

According to the complaint:

Cooperating sources told the FBI that Jonida Alicka brings between 15 and 20 pounds of high-quality marijuana to Cleveland once a month. She transports the marijuana from Michigan, where she gets it from Turhani.

Her boyfriend, identified in the filing as "F.M.", is also known as a drug trafficker and is currently wanted for a federal parole violation. He is believed to be in Toronto.

She once told a confidential source, whom she was with while she was transporting marijuana, that she "plans to use her badge and ask for a courtesy from law enforcement if she is ever stopped while transporting narcotics." She also used a law-enforcement database in 2014 to see if her boyfriend had any outstanding warrants.

Denisa transported and sold MDMA and marijuana, sometimes out of her upscale apartment complex.

Agents facilitated multiple buys with cooperating witnesses. They also trailed all four defendants as they traveled between Michigan, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

Denisa, Turhani and Konini were arrested in Los Angeles in December. However, the FBI convinced state prosecutors there to drop the charges as it continued an investigation.

Updated with information from the criminal complaint and photos of the Alicka sisters.