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Raffle Fraud in SD, TX
By Isabel Moreno, Published Sept. 28, 2011
Raffle Fraud. On Monday, August 29, when Armando Sepulveda of Houston went to pick up the title of a 2012 Ford Mustang he’d won at a raffle at the Jim Wells County Fairgrounds the previous Saturday, ...
San Diego, TX
By Isabel Moreno, Published July 27, 2011
Piggybank Heist. On Friday, July 1, Alice police officers arrested a man for stealing ten dollars from a child’s piggybank. Daniel Zurovec was part of a work crew installing screens at a residence. Two juveniles saw ...
San Diego, TX
By Isabel Moreno, Published June 1, 2011
Crack Bust. A routine traffic stop on April 10 led to the arrest of a woman carrying 12 rocks of crack cocaine in her vaginal cavity. According to the report filed by officer Nicholas Juarez, the ...
San Diego Classifieds
By Isabel Moreno, Published March 16, 2011
On March 7, 2011, San Diego’s Alice Echo-News Journal ran 248 classified ads. Two ads ran under the “Agriculture” subheading, one of which offered “85 ... More Post a comment
San Diego, Texas
By Isabel Moreno, Published Jan. 26, 2011
Ball and Chain. On a Wednesday in early December, convicted murderer Justin Lopez wore an orange jumpsuit to his wedding. Lopez married his girlfriend, Mariah ... More Comment (1)
Bees! of Jim Wells County
By Isabel Moreno, Published Nov. 23, 2010
Bees! The Jim Wells County Sheriff’s Office locked down Ben Bolt Middle School in early October after a yard worker disturbed a large nest of ... More Post a comment
San Diego, Texas
By Isabel Moreno, Published Sept. 22, 2010
Up to His Neck. On Tuesday, September 7, a horse fell into an old septic tank in Jim Wells County. He remained trapped up to ... More Post a comment
San Diego, Texas
By Isabel Moreno, Published Aug. 4, 2010
Woolly Weather. As Hurricane Alex approached the coast of Northern Mexico during the Independence Day weekend, nearly ten inches of rain flooded the streets of ... More Post a comment
San Diego, Texas (May)
By Isabel Moreno, Published May 19, 2010
Good Nephew, Bad Nephew. Marco Garcia resigned from his position as San Diego Animal Control officer two weeks after he was arrested for assaulting his ... More Post a comment
San Diego Texas, April
By Isabel Moreno, Published March 31, 2010
What’s Going on Here? Accusations of election improprieties abound after recent elections in Jim Wells County. San Diego residents Tracy Lopez and her husband, Mark ... More Post a comment
San Diego, Texas
By Isabel Moreno, Published March 3, 2010
Unclaimed Cattle. The Duval County sheriff’s office received a complaint from a rancher about cattle tearing up his fields. Deputies located the five cows on ... More Comment (1)
Beautiful Baby
By Isabel Moreno, Published Feb. 3, 2010
The Green Season. Border Patrol agents in Laredo, Texas, confiscated 745 pounds of marijuana; the bundles were wrapped in Christmas paper. During a routine immigration ... More Post a comment
1169 Miles Away
By Alfredo Cardenas, Published Jan. 6, 2010
San Diego, Texas lies 52 miles west of Corpus Christi and 1169 miles east of San Diego, California. It occupies 1.6 square miles on the ... More Post a comment
