Special to El Rrun-Rrun
He denies it "100 percent."
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And a law enforcement source in the Brownsville Police Department says that the only existence of any kind of documentation to show that something was amiss with an encounter between Brownsville Independent School District board member Erasmo Castro and a teenage male is in an incident report passed on to the cops as an unconfirmed rumor.
For days now, the talk has been swirling around Castro, but so far the only possible source of its origin has been an alleged incident report passed on to police by BISD board president Minerva Pena. Pena, a former Texas Department of Public Safety trooper, apparently thought there was something to the rumor and chose to err on the side of caution and passed it on to the police.
As the story goes, Castro was supposed to have been drunk and then as the retelling went, the story kept getting better. The most sordid part also says that some sort of kissing and fondling etween the two was involved and that it happened in a local club.
As we said at the start, Castro denies it as did some of his fellow board members. That type of rumor has dogged Erasmo for some time now. When pressed for proof, these rumors characteristically fade away. We urge discreetness (discretion?) in such matters on everybody's part.
(To the grammar nazi: Noun. discreteness (usually uncountable, plural discretenesses) The state or quality of being discrete, separated or distinct.)
Everyone, of course, is entitled to their preference, so this may have been something someone thought they saw. Until there is solid proof in the form of a formal police complaint, it can only be viewed as a vile rumor against the now not-so-portly BISD board member.
He denies it "100 percent."
And a law enforcement source in the Brownsville Police Department says that the only existence of any kind of documentation to show that something was amiss with an encounter between Brownsville Independent School District board member Erasmo Castro and a teenage male is in an incident report passed on to the cops as an unconfirmed rumor.For days now, the talk has been swirling around Castro, but so far the only possible source of its origin has been an alleged incident report passed on to police by BISD board president Minerva Pena. Pena, a former Texas Department of Public Safety trooper, apparently thought there was something to the rumor and chose to err on the side of caution and passed it on to the police.
As the story goes, Castro was supposed to have been drunk and then as the retelling went, the story kept getting better. The most sordid part also says that some sort of kissing and fondling etween the two was involved and that it happened in a local club.
As we said at the start, Castro denies it as did some of his fellow board members. That type of rumor has dogged Erasmo for some time now. When pressed for proof, these rumors characteristically fade away. We urge discreetness (discretion?) in such matters on everybody's part.
(To the grammar nazi: Noun. discreteness (usually uncountable, plural discretenesses) The state or quality of being discrete, separated or distinct.)
Everyone, of course, is entitled to their preference, so this may have been something someone thought they saw. Until there is solid proof in the form of a formal police complaint, it can only be viewed as a vile rumor against the now not-so-portly BISD board member.