For the past week, investigators for the Brownsville Police Department have been searching for the driver of the red Mercedes left parked at 235 Sunset Drive.
According to police, officers were chasing the car after it was spotted traveling at a high rate of speed down Palm Boulevard, and then in attempts to elude them, drove over the side of the road, caused some damage to shrubs and other objects before coming to a stop before the house of Leo Lopez and 357th District Judge Elia Cornejo-Lopez at 235 Sunset Drive.
However, no one knows who was driving he vehicle, despite the fact that the license plates are listed as a state official, i.e., a state district judge. Police have refrained from releasing the police report or to speculate about who the driver might have been. Neighbors say that the car has moved only once since, on Monday, when it was then parked with the damages side facing the house.
Until the whereabouts of the driver and his arrest, the police report will not be released and details of the chase or other particulars will remain unknown.
A similar incident was reported in late June involving the judge's red Mercedes.
At that time, officers of the Brownsville Police Dept. impounded the red Mercedes-Benz SUV registered to the district judge after it allegedly was involved in an accident this past weekend and the driver abandoned it without leaving any contact documentation.
The red SUV vehicle then was the same as the one above and was reportedly is registered to Cornejo-Lopez who said someone was driving it without her authorization and left it on the northbound frontage road between Boca Chica and Price Road after the mishap.
It was impounded by the P.D. where a VIN check indicated that the vehicle was registered to the district judge.
As we are in the Halloween season, will the phantom driver of the red Mercedes also vanish in this latest incident?
As we are in the Halloween season, will the phantom driver of the red Mercedes also vanish in this latest incident?