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Early Tuesday, March 25, Sergio Garcia heated the pinto beans, rice, the fragrant carnitas and barbacoa at his Austin Avenue restaurant kitchen for the last time.

He headed out the alley door, where Sergio’s Food Truck was waiting to be loaded for the morning downtown crowd.

Then, as he recalls, a man in plain clothes approached him at the truck; another man with a vest reading “Police” lingered some distance away.“They asked me if I’m Sergio, and I said, ‘Yeah, I’m Sergio,’ “ Garcia told The Bridge in a phone call from Monterrey, Mexico, last week.

“Then they said, ‘You gotta come with us.’ ”

He complied, assuming there was some kind of mix-up. He had no crim

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