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Newspaper and Travel Guide
for Pecos Country of West Texas
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Chamber honors Cole with Citizen award
An individual who has been a leader in the community for many years and has been involved in many organizations was the recipient of the Citizen of the Year Award handed out Friday evening during the Annual Pecos Area Chamber of Commerce Banquet.
Bill Randall Cole, manager of KIUN Radio for most of the past 30 years, was presented the award for 2008 by last year’s recipient, Nancy Martinez, during the banquet at the Reeves County Civic Center.
Martinez said that Cole has been a leader in the community for many years, has been involved in service organizations and is dedicated to his profession and family.
“He has always proven to go the extra mile to help others and has lived in Pecos most of his life,” said Martinez.
Martinez said that Cole was a founding member of the Pecos Valley Crimestoppers, served on the Pecos Ambulance Service for 20 years, including as chief for five of those years, and his communication skills surpass those of most people since communication is also his profession.
“He is always the first to help promote an organization, group, or business through the radio station whether they may be working on a fundraiser, a special event, starting a new service, or whatever they may need some assistance with,” said Martinez. “He takes that extra step, goes that extra mile, to keep our community informed, no matter what time of day or night, no matter how often or how long, when inclement weather is upon us or when a critical situation arises, he is at the radio station, relaying the needed information to the community, he impacts our lives every day,” she said.
Martinez said that for anyone who has ever been on Pecos Talking, especially for that first time, they are especially grateful for his talents to ask the right questions, to insert the right comment at the right time, to be able to read scribbled notes, to interpret hand signals and wide eyed, blank stares and sometimes terror filled expressions, and/or to be able to read minds and say the words that they can’t think of or that just won’t come out of their mouths.
“It is then that you really appreciate his talents,” said Martinez.
Mike Cox, a former spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, an award-winning newspaper reporter and the author of 13 non-fiction books, was the banquet’s guest speaker, and talked about the story behind the legend of Pecos Bill.
The first-ever telling of Pecos Bill’s story starts out like this: “It is highly probable that Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill, mythical cow-boy hero of the Southwest, were blood brothers. At all events, they can meet on one common ground: they were both fathered by a liar,” said Cox.
He said Tex O’Reilly, who held jobs ranging from solider of fortune to editor of the San Antonio Light, created Pecos Bill in a 1923 magazine story, and his tale was embellished by others in the ensuing years.
Cox said that dozens of novels and non-fiction books have “Pecos” in their titles as well as 28 movies, 78 movie characters have been named Pecos, including Pecos Bill, and six actors claimed to have been born in Pecos to enhance their credentials as “real” Texans.
“If you add the word ‘Bill’ to Pecos, you have another powerful brand. Thanks to Walt Disney, who turned the Pecos Bill story into an animated film in 1948, almost all of us Baby Boomers know about Pecos Bill. And young people continue to learn about him through books and animated features.
“So why not claim Pecos Bill as your own? ‘Pecos City Texas…Home of Pecos Bill and the World’s First Rodeo,’ has a nice ring to it,” said Cox.
“How about a statue of Pecos Bill? I first suggested that idea to Genora Prewit back in the early 1990s when Glen Ely, Patrick Dearen and I were spending some time out here working on a documentary video about the Pecos River and its history,” said Cox.
Certainly other cities and places have opted to take advantage of some figure connected to their past. “Your neighbors in Fort Stockton have their fiberglass roadrunner, Paisano Pete, Muleshoe has a heroic-sized mule (I don’t know it’s name, if it has one), Crystal City has a statue of Popeye that’s intentionally-known, the State Fair has Big Tex, and a 67-foot statue of Sam Houston on a 10-foot stands along I-45 at Huntsville. Closer to the coast, a 60-foot statue of Stephen F. Austin on a 10-foot base towers over Brazoria County,” he said.
“I’m not saying Pecos Bill should outrank Houston and Austin, but what if you could raise enough money to build Texas’ tallest statue? To do that, all you’d have to do was build something higher than 77 feet. Of course, you might want to go for the world’s record, but to do that you’d have to top a 502-foot statue of Buddha in Lushan, China,” said Cox.
“Spending money on a statue seems like a crazy idea in this economy, but if you build a statue that will stand for a long time, it will pay for itself over the years. I guarantee you that with a little PR, Pecos could get national publicity by putting up a Texas-sized statue of a Texas-sized character,” said Cox.
Earlier Cox said this wasn’t his first visit to the Chamber’s annual awards banquet.
“In 1969, the San Angelo Standard-Times – back when it covered West Texas like a Texas Ranger throwing down on a cattle rustler – dispatched a young reporter in a green Dodge with a red rooster painted on its doors to cover the annual chamber of commerce banquet here in Pecos,” said Cox. “I was that reporter,” he said.
Cox said that he has been back to Pecos quite a few times since then, but that he was honored to be at the banquet Friday evening as the keynote speaker, not as a 20-something journalist with a note-pad in his coat pocket and a twin lens Yashika-D reflex hanging from his neck.
“During my Standard-Times days, I made the rubber chicken circuit all across West Texas and I always enjoyed covering chamber of commerce banquets and not just for the free food,” said Cox. “My later grandfather – L.A. Wilke – was a ‘chamber man,’ the term he used to describe the profession before chamber of commerce had many women members, not to mention women officers,” he said.
While at the Standard-Times Cox said he did a series of stories on tourism. “In explaining tourism’s value to West Texas I easily found a way to use one of Granddad’s favorite chamber of commerce sayings: ‘it’s a whole lot easier to pick a tourist than a bale of cotton,’” he said.
Officials to assess damage after latest RCDC riot
Workers and officials at the Reeves County Detention Center and the center’s prison management company were hoping to begin damage assessment to units I and II at the facility, after a riot and standoff that lasted about 40 hours caused heavy damage to some areas of the facility.
Officials with GEO Group issued a statement to the Associated Press Monday morning that the disturbance at the Reeves County Detention Center started Saturday and ended with a "positive outcome." However, the statement didn't specify when the riot ended, and officials said shortly after 11 a.m. that a final agreement with the inmates was still being resolved.
“We’re close to resolving this issue,” said John Hurley, with the GEO Group. “We’re going to meet with them again and we think that everything will be resolved today.”
The riot was the second in seven weeks at the 3,700 bed prison. The first, on Dec. 12, involved inmates at RCDC III, the newest and largest of the three units at the prison. That riot was sparked following the death of an inmate, and focused on medical care of the prisons, while allegations made by the family of the inmates in RCDC I and II said complaints there also were centered on concerns about health-care of the inmates.
Those concerns were to be addressed by officials during their negotiations with leaders on the inmates.
Two hostages were taken and a fire was set inside a exercise building in the prison yard in the Dec. 12 incident. There was also some damage to one of the wings of the prison in that incident, but most of the damage and the fires connected to this weekend’s riot occurred in the main section of RCDC I and II.
Damage was reported to the commissary and infirmary areas inside the prison, along with the inmates’ cell areas. Smoke and flames could be seen coming from the vents in the wings located on the west side of the prison complex Saturday night, and a large cloud fanned out at first towards the northwest and then later that night towards the east, over the RCDC III complex.
Law enforcement officers from surrounding counties were called in to assist with security patrols around the perimeter of the prison. Most of the out-of-town officers were sent home by 1 a.m. on Sunday, but Reeves County Sheriff’s Deputies continued to block off access to the roads around the prison to all but authorized personnel through Monday.
According to a press released sent out by the GEO Group, “At no time was there any threat to public safety by the inmate participants as there were no attempts to breach the security perimeter. The physical plant design, coupled with outstanding support by local, state and Federal Law Enforcement agencies and the Federal Bureau of Prisons resulted in a positive outcome to the disturbance without any serious injuries to either staff or inmates. The center’s staff and law enforcement personnel are progressing with the return of the inmate population to secure housing, while an investigation in to the disturbance is on-going.”
The Reeves County Detention Center is under contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons to house 2,200 low security criminal aliens in the buildings I and II. The GEO Group is contracted by Reeves County to provide management oversight for the facility. The disturbance at building I and II of the Reeves County Detention Center appears to be unrelated to a prior disturbance that took place in December 2008 in the center’s building III, which is physically separated from building I and II.
Commissioners in mid-January approved several measures to increase security as a result of the Dec. 12 RCDC III riot. They included chutes to contain prisoners between the housing unit and the recreation yard at a cost of almost $70,000 for the new security measure as a result of the 15-hour riot on Dec. 12 that caused damage to one wing of the main building and to the recreation building on the east side of the RCDC III yard.
Commissioners also approved spending $579,000 to build a Chapel and a Cart Storage Building at RCDC I and II, as part of renovations and improvements to the facility.
RCDC I was first opened in 1986 as a 300-bed unit, and was expanded later in the decade and in the 1990s to house 1,000 inmates. RCDC II was built between 1999 and 2001 and also houses 1,000 inmates, while RCDC III was completed four years ago. All three facilities house U.S. Bureau or Prison inmates.,
Arizona men killed in I-20 SUV rollover
Two men from Meza, Az., were killed and two other persons were injured Saturday afternoon in a one-vehicle rollover on Interstate 20 in western Reeves County.
According to a report from the Texas Department of Public Safety, the accident occurred at 12:50 p.m. on Saturday near mile marker 4 on I-20, about 17 1/2 miles west of Toyah. DPS Trooper Robert Orr of Balmorhea said a 2001 Ford Explorer driven by Lawrence Lewis Robedeau III, 31, was westbound on the interest when the tread on the left rear tire separated, causing a blowout. Robedeau then lost control of the SUV, causing it to go into the barrow ditch on the north side of the highway and overturn, rolling onto the north service road of the Interstate before coming to rest on its roof.
Orr said Robedeau died at the scene, as did one of his passengers, identified as Brian Clanton, 24. Both were pronounced dead at 2:20 p.m. by Reeves County Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace Grace Renteria, and their bodies transported to Pecos Funeral Home.
Injured in the accident were Vicky Clanton, 54, and Tonya Robedeau, 28, also from Meza. Clanton suffered head injuries and a broken wrist and was listed in critical condition at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, while Tanya Robedeau was in stable condition in Odessa with hip injuries and a broken tooth.
Uninjured was 2-year-old Lawrence Lewis Robedeau IV. Orr said neither of the two women injured were wearing seat belts when the accident occurred. The child and Brian Clanton were wearing seat belts, while it was unknown if the driver was belted when the blowout and rollover occurred.
DPS Sgt. Richard Jacobs and Trooper Emmit Moore assisted in the investigation.
Four questioned after Friday arson fires
Pecos Volunteer Fire Department members and other medical and law enforcement officials were kept busy Friday with a series of arson fires, and four persons are being investigated by the Reeves County Sheriff’s Department in connection with at least one of the fires, following a high speed chase through the county.
The chase covered about 110 miles at speeds of up to 110 miles per hour, and started after a vehicle was spotted leaving the scene of the fourth of Friday’s five arson fires. The high-speed pursuit began shortly after 11 p.m., but deputies didn’t arrest the four until just before sunrise, after they abandoned their vehicle north of Balmorhea and were located at the I-210 Fina south of Saragosa.
Firemen were first called out about 4 p.m. on Friday to a fire at the former Dr Pepper bottling plant in the 300 block of North Cedar Street. Flames engulfed the inside of the brick building and sent thick, black smoke into the sky that could be seen from over 30 miles away.
The next four fires occurred over a 2 1/2-hour period late Friday and early Saturday morning. “All were vacant structures. None of them had electricity or any utilities going to them,” said Pecos Fire Marshal Jack Brookshire, who added that arson was the likely cause of the blazes, and all of the buildings involved were destroyed by the fires.
The first fire Friday night occurred at Fifth and Peach streets, across from Santa Rosa Church. That was followed by a fire call to the Lindsay Addition, and then by one to an abandoned mobile home and vehicle on County Road 406, north of the Pecos city limits. Reeves County Chief Deputy Victor Prieto said deputy Ramon Ortiz was in the area when that fire broke out.
“He was on patrol looking for something wrong, because of all the fires that started that day,” Prieto said on Monday. “He spotted the first that had broken out, and then he saw a vehicle coming out of the area at a high rate of speed.”
Preito said Ortiz tried to stop the light truck about 11:52 p.m. and then chased them along the county road southwest to the north Interstate 20 service road. “They kept going on the service road doing 110 mph, then when the service road ends (at Salt Draw) they got on near Toyah and went all the way to mile marker 7.”
He said the vehicle then exited the interstate and came back east, 35 miles to Pecos at speeds again over 110 mph. Officers set up spikes to stop the vehicle at the Highway 17 overpass, but it left the highway before there and went onto the south I-20 service road and then onto Industrial Boulevard, before getting on Highway 17 and heading south towards Balmorhea.
While the chase was occurring on Highway 17, the final fire was reported, two miles south of the Lindsay Addition on Highway 17. Meanwhile, Preito said the pursuit continued for another 40 miles south into the Balmorhea area.
“They went all the way to FM 2903, and then onto County Road 328 and kept going until they came up to a gate that was locked, and the abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot,” Preito said.
The vehicle was abandoned around 2 a.m. and the search continued for about another 3 1/2 hours, until the four were located at the I-10 Fina and placed under arrest. The four were identified as Jose Luis Beltran, 17; Joe Angel Rubio, 18; John Flora, 18; and Dawson Flora, 21. All four were transported to Reeves County Jail, where they remained as of Monday morning on charges of fleeing or attempting to evade arrest or detention.
No arson charges had been filed as of Monday, but Brookshire said, “One of the neighbors that lived around there said they heard something going on, and saw three or four people talking,”
He added that he planned to talk to the four at the jail later on Monday.
“Hopefully they’ll talk, but so far they said they know nothing about the fire,” Brookshire said. He added that there were no items in the vehicle when it was found abandoned that connected the four to the northside fire, “But they had about 150 miles to get rid of anything in the vehicle.”
Brookshire said he would finish looking at the remaining fire sites this week, while Pecos Police Chief Clay McKinney said he would wait for the results of Brookshire’s investigation before taking any action on the fires inside the city limits.
Two other fires also occurred on Friday. One was in a dumpster, while Brookshire said the other was a small fire on a balcony of the Country Club Apartments, 2600 Country Club Dr. Both those fires occurred during the daytime, and firemen were able to quickly extinguish both fires.
Families say poor medical care sparked riot
Sidia Molina, wife of RCDC III prisoner Alberto Molina, says last month’s riot at the Reeves County prison, and the ongoing riot at the RCDC I and II units are rooted in medical care the prisoners say is deficient.
In a telephone interview Monday, Sidia related her and her husband’s version of the story.
According to Sidia, Alberto was placed on probation and lost his resident alien status after a drug conviction in 1989. At that point, rather than be deported, he simply stopped meeting with his parole officer and went underground, working as an automobile mechanic.
Fifteen years later he was involved in a car accident in Houston, and as a result, was imprisoned for failing to meet the requirements of probation.
Molina was sentenced to 70 months, and Sidia said he has about a year and a half left to serve.
“Alberto had back surgery twice before going to prison,” she said. “But developed what is called a ‘flat foot,’ affecting his right leg.
According to Wikipedia, a flat foot or foot drop, “is a deficit in turning the ankle and toes upward, known as dorsiflexion,” and can result from problems with the nervous system.
“The underlying disorder must be treated. For example, if a spinal disc herniation in the low back is impinging on the nerve that goes to the leg and causing symptoms of foot drop, then the herniated disc should be treated.”
Sidia said in August of 2008 her husband related that he was again experiencing back pain and this time he was having trouble controlling his left foot as well as his right.
According to Sidia, the doctor that saw him in the prison told him there was nothing wrong.
Sidia says Alberto went back with the same complaint. This time, he related that he was put in solitary confinement, for “bed rest.”
“They kept him there for six weeks. They made him say he was better before they would let him out of solitary,” she said.
At this point her husband cannot walk, she said.
“Alberto says that the problems at that prison are all about medical treatment,” she said.
Roberto Canales, Jr., says his father agrees about the medical care problems. Roberto Canales, Sr. is also an inmate at the Reeves County Detention Center.
Like Alberto Molina, Canales is a Mexican national who was “caught with drugs” according to his son.
The younger Canales says that his father still has his resident alien classification but expects him to lose it before his 18-month sentence is finished in June.
“I was visiting my dad on Saturday (January 31),” Canales told The Enterprise.
“What he told me is that some inmates are getting sick and not being offered the necessary medical attention. That is why the inmates rioted last month. He told me that a month ago, an inmate got sick and died,” he said.
Canales said that he visited his father from about 12 noon to a little before three Saturday afternoon.
The latest riot began about 90 minutes later.
Officials with the prison’s management company, Geo Group had released only one short statement regarding the latest riot as of 2:30 p.m. on Monday.
The Enterprise hand carried Sidia Molina’s comments regarding her husband to Reeves County Sheriff Andy Gomez and Geo officials this morning at approximately 11 a.m. Officials said they would respond to the complaints by early Monday afternoon, but no reply had been received by press time at 3 p.m.
Police Report
EDITOR’S NOTE: Information contained in the Police Report is obtained from reports filed by the Pecos Police Department, Reeves County Sheriff’s Office, or other officers of those agencies. The serving of warrants by an officer for outstanding fines of either traffic citations, animal control violations or other court costs are considered arrests and will be printed as such unless indicated that the fines were paid. In such instances we will indicate payment and release.
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Jerri Diaz Ornelas, 39, 912 S. Elm St., was arrested by police on Jan. 23 on a warrant out of the Reeves County Sheriff’s Department charging her with fraud (insufficient funds-check). Police said the arrest was made at 3:10 a.m., when records check made after a traffic stop in the 800 block of Palmer Street turned up the outstanding warrant. Ornelas was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Juan Andres Nino, 26, 624 S. Alamo St., was arrested on Jan. 21 on warrants out of Pecos Municipal Court charging him with driving without a license and leaving the scene of an accident after striking a highway fixture or landscaping. Police said the arrest was made at 9:12 p.m. at Nino’s home, and he was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Diona Rae Walker, 26, 1518 S. Morris St., was arrested by police on Jan. 21 on a warrant issued out of Municipal Court for abandoning or endangering a child, a State Jail Felony. Police said the arrest was made at Walker’s home at 9:35 p.m., and she was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Arturo Sanchez Jr., 27, 1308 Lunday St., was arrested by police on Jan. 22 on a warrant for a probation violation. Police said the arrest was made at 6:53 p.m. at Sanchez’s home, and he was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Geno Abel Leos, 19, 1614 S. Hackberry St., was arrested by police on Jan. 24 on a charge of reckless driving, a Class B misdemeanor. Police said the arrest was made following an incident in the 900 block of Monroe Street, and Leos was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Mariano Rico Jasso, 22, 616 S. Eddy St., was arrested by police on Jan. 24 on a charge of public intoxication, a Class C misdemeanor. Police said the arrest was made following an incident in the 900 block of Monroe Street, and Jasso was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Isaac Granado, 26, 605 N. Ash St., was arrested at his home on Jan.. 16 on a charge of burglary of a building. Police said the arrest was made at 4:58 p.m., after officers were called to the Town and Country Food Store, 1219 S. Cedar St., at 2:26 a.m. that day after the store’s east side plate glass window had been broken out. Police later determined that beer had been removed from the store, and following an investigation obtained a warrant for Granado’s arrest. He was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Mariano Rico Jasso, 22, 616 S. Eddy St., was arrested by police on Jan. 22 on charges of public intoxication, a Class C misdemeanor, and terroristic threat against a police officer, a Class A misdemeanor. Police said the arrest was made outside Allsup’s, 2232 S. Eddy St., and Jasso was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Michael Allen York, 48, of El Paso, was arrested by police on Jan. 21 on a charge of public intoxication. Police said the arrest was made at the Oak Tree Inn, 220 N. Frontage Rd., at 11:04 p.m. after officers received a report of a subject yelling from his room. York was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Michelle Cassie Oglesby, 19, of Chandler, Az., was arrested by police on Jan. 19 on a charge of theft under $50. Police said police were called at 11:15 a.m. to the Jackson Hewitt Tax Service office at 1118 S. Eddy St., in reference to a subject causing problems. Police said Oglesby was found inside a vehicle parked outside the business with a folding pocket knife in the pocket of a hoodie she was wearing. Police were later told by Gibson True Value owner Larry Windham that the knife, valued at $26, had been stolen from his store. The serial number on the knife matched the one provided to officers, and Ogelsby was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Adam Michael Natividad, 30, of Lamesa, was arrested on Jan. 17 on a warrant charging him with assault causing bodily injury, a Class A misdemeanor. Police said the arrest was made at Cash’s Sports Bar, in the 1300 block of East Third Street, after Natividad was found during a walk-through and was known to have an outstanding warrant for his arrest. He was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Joseph Andrews Montoya, 17, 620 S. Ash St., and Brian Javier Munoz, 19, 921 S. Walnut St., were arrested by police on Jan. 17 on charges of racing on a highway, a Class B misdemeanor. Police said the arrests were made after the two were seen racing side-by-side while northbound in the 300 block of North Cedar Street. Both Montoya and Munoz were then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Jesse David Ortega, 17, 511 S. Mesquite St., was arrested on Jan. 19 on a charge of assault under the Family Violence Act, a Class C misdemeanor. Police said the arrest was made at Ortega’s home following an incident there, and he was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Sally Silvas, 30, 1310 Leader St., was arrested by police on Jan. 16 on a warrant for an unspecified charge. Police said the arrest was made at her home, and Silvas was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Oscar Natividad Mendoza Jr., 30, 1024 S. Ash St., was arrested by police on Jan. 17 on a traffic violation and a warrant for failure to pay a fine on a previous charge of failure to display proof of financial responsibility. Police said the arrest was made following a traffic stop at 12th and Cedar streets, and Mendoza was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Ciro Valtierra Ortiz, 59, 1332 Leader St., was arrested by police on Jan. 17 on a charge of public intoxication, A Class C misdemeanor. Police said the arrest was made in the 1200 block of South Cedar Street, and Ortiz was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Robert Jasso Ruiz, 52, 411 S. Walnut St., was arrested by police on Jan. 17 on a traffic violation and a warrant for failure to pay a fine on a previous charge of failure to display proof of financial responsibility. Police said the arrest was made at 7:59 p.m. at Seventh and Oak streets, and Ruiz was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Martin Rico Jasso, 22, 616 S. Eddy St., was arrested by police on Jan. 18 on a warrant for terroristic threat, a Class B misdemeanor. Police said the arrest was made following a traffic stop at Seventh and Palm streets, and Jasso was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Maria Elisa Carrera, 40, 1104 E. Seventh St., was arrested by police on Jan. 18 on a warrant for parole violation, issued out of the Austin Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Also arrested at the same time was Clemente Jaramillo Jr., 46, 411 N. Hickory St., who was charged by police with hindering apprehension, a Third Degree Felony. Police said the arrest was made after Carrera was discovered at 810 E. Third St., and that Jaramillo had provided false information to officers in order to warn Carrera. She was taken by police to the Reeves County Jail and turned over to sheriff’s deputies, while Jaramillo was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Michael Timothy Matta, 38, 203 S. Walnut St., Apt. C, was arrested by police on Jan. 13 on a charge of possession of a controlled substance (heroin), possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police said the arrest was made after officers executed a search warrant at 8:13 p.m. at Matta’s apartment, where the drugs and paraphernalia were discovered. Matta was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Leonard Edward Davis, 43, 1255 Martinez St., was arrested by police on Jan. 14 on a charge of possession of marijuana within 1000 feet of a school (Bessie Haynes Elementary). Police said the arrest was made after officers executed a search warrant on Davis’ home at 6:13 p.m. and discovered the marijuana inside. He was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Juan Matta Morales, 20, 2117 s. Hackberry St., was arrested by police on Jan. 12 on a charge of driving without a valid license, a Class C misdemeanor. Police said the arrest was made following a traffic stop in the 1000 block of East Third Street, and Morales was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Jeremy Flores Rodriguez, 19, was arrested by police on Jan. 10 on a charge of assault causing bodily injury, a Class A misdemeanor, and Matthew Flores Rodriguez, 18, 1018 S. Walnut St., was arrested on a charge of assault under the Family Violence Act, a Class C misdemeanor. Police said the arrests were made at the Rodriguezes’ home, and they were then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Adam Rodriguez Tarin Jr., 24, 824 S. Plum St., was arrested by police on Jan. 11 on a charge of driving while intoxicated (refusal). Police said the arrest was made after officers were called to the Country Club Apartments, 2600 Country Club Dr., in reference to an accident in the parking area. Tarin was then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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Jose Beltran, 17, 300 N. Hackberry St., John Flora, 18, and Dawson Flora, 21, both of 5401 Valley Rd., and Eloy Navarrette, 17, 2203 Country Club Dr., were arrested by police on Jan. 5 on charges of possession of marijuana, a Class B misdemeanor. Police said the arrests were made at Allsup’s 2232 S. Eddy St., and the four were then transported to the Pecos Criminal Justice Center.
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