Posted on 06/04/2008 3:12:24 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
EDINBURG -- Indicted Hidalgo County Elections Administrator Teresa Navarro turned herself in at the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office this morning, where she was booked on multiple felony charges.
Accompanied by her attorney Terry Palacios, Navarro left the sheriff's office about 12:30 p.m. before a crowd of news media, looking straight ahead and saying nothing.
An Hidalgo County grand jury returned four sealed indictments Tuesday in connection with an ongoing investigation into bookkeeping irregularities at the Hidalgo County Elections Department.
The indictments are expected to be unsealed today. Arrest warrants were issued for Navarro, 48, Patricia Zapata, 35, Amado Cavazos Jr., 27, and Rene Solis, 42. All four turned themselves in at the sheriff's office today.
According to the arrest warrants, Navarro faces five criminal counts: one count of theft by a public servant in the amount of $500 to $1,500, a state jail felony; two counts of theft by a public servant in the amount of $1,500 to $20,000, a third-degree felony; one count of engaging in organized criminal activity, a first-degree felony; and one count of tampering with government records, a state jail felony.
Zapata faces five felony counts, Cavazos faces two felony counts, and Solis faces seven felony counts.
Charges such as organized criminal activity suggest that those indicted knowingly broke the law and worked together, Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño said Wednesday. And charges such as evidence tampering show that the indicted individuals were trying to cover their tracks, he added.
Solis has been Navarro's right-hand man at the elections department, serving as the department's director of operations. However, it is not clear whether he is still a county employee.
The elections department has been under investigation since February, when a county audit identified several discrepancies in its employees' vehicle rental agreements, fuel card statements and out-of-county...
(Excerpt) Read more at valleymorningstar.com ...
Thanks to RGVTx for the heads up!
Valle ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
The article doesn’t say, but dare I guess these are Dimocrats?
LOL - it’s getting harder to find a list of Hidalgo County officials who haven’t been indicted. Hidalgo county is one party politics (dem) with no oversight. Always has been. Always will be.
When the MSM doesn't tell you the political party, it is ALWAYS the Democrats.
By Victor Castillo
Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 2:06 p.m.
Hidalgo County Elections Administrator Teresa Navarro dodged a bullet even after a recommendation to terminate her.
Navarro will remain at her post despite an investigation into discrepancies at her office.
A recent Hidalgo County audit described many instances where vehicles were rented by the Elections Department when there were no seminars or functions to go to.
Navarro even had to respond to mishandling of fuel cards and travel advances where people never submitted an expense report.
But Navarro walked out of the County Adminstration Building on Tuesday morning with no comments to the media. This after the County Elections Commission voted to dismiss Navarro.
A FR report indicated a Corpus Christi Sheriff is looking for 19 undocumented immigrants from Honduras who had cell phones and may be receiving help to remain hidden from authorities.
The prevailing wage in Honduras at $3 per day.........yet they have cell phones and are able to pay the freight to get over the border?
These invaders are working for drug cartels who supply them w/ cell phones and all that is necessary to clear the way for bigtime drug smuggling.
Even as we type, Mexican and Columbian drug cartels are waging war in border towns near New Mexico to carve out their turf.
Two reasons:
(1) Drug cartels envision huge profits now that Mexican trucks are hauling on US highways--- the trucks are easily loaded up with drugs and illegal aliens (drug runners) with no fear of L/E-----b/c Bush authorized this atrocity.
(2) The US is overrun by invaders from Third World countries, who are organizing themselves into a voting bloc. They use fraudulent documents, stolen IDs and multiple addresses to register in several precincts.
The longterm plan is to takeover the US government to change our laws.
Drug cartels are setting themselves up to benefit from this.
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As one FReeper posted: these ‘migrants’ are not starving, they’re here to loot US govt benefits.
They send billions back to their homeland......part of the "remittances" is drug money being laundered through Western Union, going back to the cartels. Mexican officials are also getting a cut.
I suggest they check the voter lists——I would bet they have more registered voters than they have residents.
Hidalgo County Judge J.D. Salinas, who presides over the commissioners court and is also a member of the election commission, voiced concern in April with the report’s findings, including:
> Multiple paperwork discrepancies between the elections department’s submitted and actual car rental agreements.
> “Many instances” of cars being used for non-official business and by people not employed by the county.
> Bills for contract work that were directly handled by the department in violation of county procedures.
> Cases where travel advances were not followed up by final expense claims.
Although the audit did not identify any one employee as being responsible for the anomalies, the election commission felt Navarro should have had better oversight of her office.
“I’ve always said this is not a criminal decision,” Salinas said Tuesday, referring to the commissioners court decision in April to take no action on the election commission’s recommendation to fire Navarro.
“From (the elections commission’s) perspective we had enough to administratively dismiss her.”
AFTER THE INDICTMENTS
Navarro could continue in her position as elections administrator for the foreseeable future, unless county commissioners revisit the election commission’s recommendation to terminate her.
“Maybe they will reconsider,” Salinas said Tuesday. “I think it’s a problem. ... Now it’s up to (the county commissioners).”
The indicted county employees could be subject to suspension and termination based on their cases’ outcomes.
The criminal allegations against department employees are not expected to affect the results of any past elections, because the cases are built on internal bookkeeping matters and not ballot counts or voter fraud.
Navarro has served as the county’s election administrator for the past eight years.
She took office in 2000, several months after her predecessor, Noe Garza, suddenly retired after allegations of voting irregularities.
MORE TO COME
More indictments are set to be handed down in connection with the Sheriff’s investigation, Hidalgo County District Attorney Rene Guerra said today.
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Teresa Navarro
DOB: 12/23/1959
> Theft by a public servant ($500-$1,500); state jail felony
> Theft by a public servant ($1,500-$20,000); third-degree felony
> Theft by a public servant ($1,500-$20,000); third-degree felony
> Engaging in organized criminal activity; first-degree felony
> Tampering with government records; state jail felony
Patricia Zapata
DOB: 03/12/1973
> Engaging in organized criminal activity; first-degree felony
> Tampering with government records; state jail felony
> Tampering with government records; state jail felony
> Tampering with government records; state jail felony
> Tampering with government records; state jail felony
Amado Cavazos Jr.
DOB: 09/14/1980
> Engaging in organized criminal activity; first-degree felony
> Theft by a public servant ($500-$1,500); state jail felony
Rene Solis
DOB: 09/21/1965
> Theft by a public servant ($1,500-$20,000); third-degree felony
> Theft by a public servant ($500-$1,500); state jail felony
> Engaging in organized criminal activity; first-degree felony
> Tampering with government records; state jail felony
> Tampering with government records; state jail felony
> Tampering with government records; state jail felony
> Tampering with government records; state jail felony
Also saw today where a pilot was charged for flying FOUR illegals from McAllen, TX to South Carolina.
I guess we're *supposed* to believe these *poor* invaders were only in a hurry to get to the *cheap* lettuce fields....
Thanks for the heads-up.
I guess we're *supposed* to believe these *poor* invaders were only in a hurry to get to the *cheap* lettuce fields....
Yeah, they came here to pick lettuce at $7.50 an hour to have a "better life"....AND to be able to send $50 billion back home to Mexico.
$50 billion? How'd they do that (snicker)?
Looks like these criminals were using county vehicles and facilities to sell and transport drugs.
The Third World is here-—these are common scams one would find in corrupt hellholes south of the border.
Pilot sentenced for immigrant smuggling
Posted: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 at 8:16 a.m.
http://www.kgbt4.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=142031
JACKSON, MISS. (AP) — A South Carolina man has been sentenced to a year in prison on charges of flying illegal immigrants between Texas and South Carolina.
U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton said James Leroy Pierson was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson.
Pierson had pleaded guilty to the charge in March.
Prosecutors said customs agents tracked Pierson’s plane when it left McAllen, Texas, on January 28 with a destination of Clemson, S.C.
When the plane landed in Meridian, Pierson and four passengers were taken into custody.
Custom agents said the passengers admitted to being illegal immigrants.
guess thats why some invaders are now able to charter planes once they sneak across our borders.
Dare!
*Poor* illegals now chartering planes....that U.S. taxpayers are too broke to charter.
BTT!
You are so right!!
Proof Of Illegal Aliens Voting As Those Called For Jury Duty Claim They Are Not Citizens
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Harris County Voter Registrar Paul Bettencourt testified before a congressional committee this summer that in 2005, he identified at least 35 foreign nationals who applied for or received voter registration cards. In fact, since 1992, Harris County officials have canceled 3,742 registered voters for noncitizenship. Most important, Bettencourt has records of noncitizens voting in Harris County.
Disturbingly, the noncitizens removed from the voter rolls were identified mostly because they refused jury duty by admitting they were not citizens.
At minimum, the Bexar and Harris district attorneys are obligated to investigate and possibly prosecute these proven instances of vote fraud. An applicant must attest, under penalty of perjury, that he is a citizen to register to vote. Clearly, that law has been violated
http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/001982.html
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