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Well, it's out of the frying pan into the fire for problem child Carlos Rios.
You remember Carlos, he is the 25-year-old Brownsville man who was a candidate this past May for a seat on the board of Texas Southmost College.
Well, after coming perilously close to making the runoff (30 percent of the vote), Rios made news by getting arrested for DWI after he fell asleep in the rive-through window of the Whataburger Restaurant off the frontage road and Ruben Torres Blvd. That was less than two weeks after the May 5 election.
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His supporters were disappointed because he had come so close to making the runoff and didn't. But they were even more miffed when they found out that he had a previous DWI charge and had neglected to tell them. In fact, less than two weeks after the second DWI after the election, there was a warrant issued for his arrest May 30 after he Failed To Appear (FTA) for a court hearing. That warrant is still active.
The Cameron County District Attorney then filed a motion to withdraw his Pre-Trial Deferment offer as a first offender which would have allowed his conviction to be erased if he completed the program requirements.
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The latest troubles for this young man came just Saturday when Rios and a friend named Oscar Garcia went out to party the night away and ended up getting into a fight. According to the Facebook account posted by Garcia (since withdrawn), he and Rios were drinking and smoking when they came to blows and Rios got the worse of it.
(Garcia had been previously arrested by the Brownsville Police Dept. in November 2016 and charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana.)
According to the now-erased post, Garcia put a hurt on Rios before it was all said and done.
Obviously, Rios' life is becoming a bit unmanageable. He has posted before that he was embarking on another semester of college after the election. After that, he expressed a desire to enter the Brownsville Independent School District race for trustee this November.
Now as he licks his wounds he has to look over his shoulder and stay on the straight and narrow because any encounter with any law enforcement will reveal the outstanding warrant.
Well, it's out of the frying pan into the fire for problem child Carlos Rios.
You remember Carlos, he is the 25-year-old Brownsville man who was a candidate this past May for a seat on the board of Texas Southmost College.
Well, after coming perilously close to making the runoff (30 percent of the vote), Rios made news by getting arrested for DWI after he fell asleep in the rive-through window of the Whataburger Restaurant off the frontage road and Ruben Torres Blvd. That was less than two weeks after the May 5 election.
His supporters were disappointed because he had come so close to making the runoff and didn't. But they were even more miffed when they found out that he had a previous DWI charge and had neglected to tell them. In fact, less than two weeks after the second DWI after the election, there was a warrant issued for his arrest May 30 after he Failed To Appear (FTA) for a court hearing. That warrant is still active.
The Cameron County District Attorney then filed a motion to withdraw his Pre-Trial Deferment offer as a first offender which would have allowed his conviction to be erased if he completed the program requirements.
The latest troubles for this young man came just Saturday when Rios and a friend named Oscar Garcia went out to party the night away and ended up getting into a fight. According to the Facebook account posted by Garcia (since withdrawn), he and Rios were drinking and smoking when they came to blows and Rios got the worse of it.(Garcia had been previously arrested by the Brownsville Police Dept. in November 2016 and charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana.)
According to the now-erased post, Garcia put a hurt on Rios before it was all said and done.
Obviously, Rios' life is becoming a bit unmanageable. He has posted before that he was embarking on another semester of college after the election. After that, he expressed a desire to enter the Brownsville Independent School District race for trustee this November.
Now as he licks his wounds he has to look over his shoulder and stay on the straight and narrow because any encounter with any law enforcement will reveal the outstanding warrant.