Following Up: Agent Assaulted

A Quick Update

Good afternoon, friends,

We’re keeping this one short, as it turns out— there isn’t much to tell about yesterday’s incident on Fort Clark, which we promised to update you on in this Morning’s newsletter.

As we suspected this morning when we touched upon how broadly “assault” could be defined, this is probably one of those things where a half decent lawyer or a plea bargain will clear things up.

Details are still a little hazy, since the case is mostly a matter between Texas DPS and US Border Patrol, and Kinney County Sheriff’s Office tends to avoid trying to give chapter and verse on cases that don’t belong to the Sheriff’s Office.

But apparently, it all began with a bailout after an attempted traffic stop Tuesday. At some point a Border Patrol agent may have grappled with one of the suspects and was knocked over into the dirt while the pair struggled.

We’re no lawyers, but it sounds like the sort of thing that a decent Sol Goodman type would be able to argue down, if that is indeed what happened. It sounds like the suspect jumped to their feet and took off running at that point, disappearing into the backside of Fort Clark Springs, before being captured hours later.

When suspects run so determinedly like that, it’s frequently the case that they have some kind of prior records with law enforcement and don’t want to be captured. Most folks with relatively clean records tend to sit and wait calmly, knowing they’ll be free to make another attempt at crossing once they’re returned to Mexico.

No idea what kind of priors these suspects might have— DPS is so opaque, even these days, that it doesn’t hardly seem worth the struggle of filing an information request with Austin. In the past, deputies have seen guys with DWI’s run just as hard as accused child molesters.

That should do it for now— hope it wasn’t too disappointing. But when you promise a follow-up, you’d best deliver.

Have a great evening— and we’ll see you again soon. As always, the newsletter is produced separately from our day job with Kinney County and should not be mistaken for any kind of an official communication. It is sent out into the world without any kind of County oversight, and any errors, mistakes, or bad information are entirely our doing.