2 San Antonio City Council members arrested
Associated Press (Houston Chronicle)
SAN ANTONIO - Two San Antonio City Council members and a local attorney were arrested this morning by FBI agents.
FBI spokesman Rene Salinas said agents arrested council members John Sanders and Enrique "Kike" Martin. Salinas identified the defense attorney as Jack Pytel.
Neither Salinas nor officials at the U.S. Attorney's office would say why the men were arrested.
Sanders, Martin and Pytel were led one by one into the FBI's downtown office in handcuffs late Wednesday morning for arrest processing. All three were brought back out after noon.
All were stern-faced, and didn't offer comments to gathered reporters.
Sanders represents the city's predominantly black East Side, while Martin's mostly Hispanic district is in southwest San Antonio. Both men were elected in May 2001.
Pytel, who also works as a lobbyist, served as a local counsel for millionaire businessman Allen Blackthorne, who was convicted in 2000 of soliciting the murder of his ex-wife in Florida in 1997.
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