Robert Garza, a former Cameron County Judge was arrested on Wednesday night on several charges.
Details are limited but according to jail records, Garza is charged with driving while intoxicated, evading arrest with a vehicle and unlawfully carrying a weapon.
He was arrested in Palmview, according to court records.
Palmview police arrested Garza, who is a visiting judge for the 5th Administrative Judicial Region, which oversees the Rio Grande Valley, on charges of evading arrest with a motor vehicle and unlawful carrying of a weapon.
The 65-year-old was booked into the Hidalgo County jail at 1:53 p.m., according to jail staff.
A Palmview Municipal Court judge set Garza’s cash bond at $25,000, and he was released Wednesday evening.
Garza frequently hears cases in Hidalgo, Cameron and Starr counties and was appointed to preside over Hidalgo County’s 93rd District Court in the interim between Rodolfo “Rudy” Delgado’s suspension from the bench and the appointment of Jaime Tijerina.