Site updated March 3, 2010 at 10:05 pm for LOCAL Election Results only. Full website updated March 4, 2010 at 11:25 am.
County Judge: Francisco Ponce 1300
District Clerk: Maricela G. Gonzalez 1322
County Clerk: Mario Z. Garcia 1391
County Treasurer: Estanislado Martinez 1274
Justice of the Peace, Pct. 1: Sonia G. Mendoza 255
Justice of the Peace, Pct. 3: Leticia Cortez Hernandez 105
Justice of the Peace, Pct. 4: Alfredo "Beef" Martinez 608
Contested Races:
County Commissioner, Pct. 2
Mario Trevino 247
Jesse Perales 50
Ramon Saenz, Jr. 116
Johnny Gloria 353
RUNOFF TO BE HELD BETWEEN MARIO TREVINO AND JOHNNY GLORIA
County Commissioner, Pct. 4
Manuel "Meme" Ruiz 178
Doraelia Gonzalez 170
Rodrigo Jaime 490
NO RUNOFF - RODRIGO JAIME WINS DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION
Justice of the Peace, Pct. 2
Alberto "Pito" Esquivel 533
Arturo S. Juarez 206
NO RUNOFF - ALBERTO "PITO" ESQUIVEL WINS DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION
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Local Man Arrested for Passing Counterfeit Money, Drug Charges and Alien Smuggling
The Dimmit County Sheriff’s Office and the Carrizo Springs U.S. Border Patrol conducted a raid at 204 South 14th street on information provided by the Carrizo Springs U.S. Border patrol that the owner of the house was housing illegal aliens for transport. The house was searched and eleven to twelve illegal aliens were discovered. The investigation continued in the efforts of locating the owner and/or tenant of the house. The owner and/or tenant of the home was located and identified as Everardo O. “Gordo” Aguilar from Carrizo Springs.
As the investigation was being conducted by the Dimmit County Sheriff’s Office and the Carrizo Springs U.S. Border Patrol a twist to the investigation was revealed. It was discovered that Aguilar had just attempted to pass a one hundred dollar counterfeit bills at a local store and had paid another individual that he owed with counterfeit bills.
Eight one hundred dollars bills were recovered, all having the same serial number: DB01312963A.
Sheriff Joel Gonzales urges everyone and every business to check their currency and see if they have any hundred dollar bills with the same serial number (as shown above) and to immediately contact the Sheriff’s Office if they do.
The Sheriff also said that the secret service has been contacted who arrived and is also assisting with the investigation and informed that these bills have been circulating all the way as far as Austin, Texas.
The Sheriff also informed that a previous raid had been conducted at the same address by the Dimmit County Sheriff’s Office in attempts of finding stolen goods or narcotics that were believed to be housed. No stolen goods were found but a large amount of marijuana was found inside one of the bedrooms and since then the Dimmit County Sheriff’s Office had been looking for Aguilar. Aguilar was turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol in reference to the illegal aliens for processing and will be turned over shortly thereafter to the Dimmit County Sheriff’s Office where Aguilar will be officially be charged for the counterfeit currency and Possession of Marijuana.
The Sheriff would like to thank the Carrizo Springs U.S. Border Patrol for their assistance.
School Board Hires Eliseo Aguero as New Athletic Director
The CSCISD Board of Trustees held a special meeting on Tuesday, March 2 with the only item on the agenda being the hiring of the new athletic director/head football coach. Current athletic director Johnny Estrada announced his resignation several months ago. In December, the Board decided to combine the two positions of athletic director and head football coach.After some discussion in executive sessio, the Board voted 7-0 on the Superintendent’s recommendation to hire Eliseo Aguero as the new athletic director. Aguero is currently with the Freer ISD, and formerly with Crystal City ISD.