SAN ANTONIO – A person accused of capturing 3 San Antonio police officials closing month has officially been indicted in two unrelated felony cases that took just about a 12 months to move prior to a grand jury.
Jesse Garcia, 28, used to be indicted Sept. 7 for ownership of methamphetamine with the intent to ship and for unauthorized use of a motor automobile, Bexar County court docket data display.
The cases, which flip one-year-old Friday, had stalled in the Bexar County court docket gadget.
District Attorney officers in the past mentioned fundamental investigative paintings through San Antonio police in each cases had now not been finished.
“Very simple, basic things. On the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle case, for example, there was never even a statement taken from the owner of the vehicle. That’s just basic,” Bexar County First Assistant District Attorney Christian Henricksen advised on Sept. 1.
SAPD officers in the past advised statements from sufferers are usually captured on officer-worn frame cameras and that the DA’s administrative center didn’t achieve out to SAPD inquiring for further information at the two cases till Aug. 25, an afternoon after Garcia used to be charged in reference to a violent rampage at the town’s Southwest and West Sides.
The shootings commenced a chaotic 12 days in which 5 SAPD officials in all had been shot and a 6th by accident shot himself whilst pursuing an armed housebreaking suspect. The shootings additionally ended in a volley of complaint backward and forward between SAPD Chief William McManus and Bexar County DA Joe Gonzales.
A pass judgement on ordered Garcia, a convicted felon, to be held with out bond Aug. 30 on a complete of 4 older cases.
Garcia faces 8 new felony fees for irritated attack of a public servant, irritated theft, and irritated kidnapping in reference to the capturing spree that began in the 100 block of Oriental Avenue and ended with an hours-long standoff in the 2600 block of Westward Drive.
DA blocks preliminary case evaluations from Garcia’s 2022 cases
On Sept. 1, the similar day Henricksen criticized SAPD’s dealing with of the drug ownership and stolen automobile cases against Garcia, Investigates asked the preliminary case evaluations from each pending prison issues.
ICR’s are emails or paperwork despatched through the DA’s administrative center to an arresting company describing what information continues to be lacking and outlining what continues to be wanted through the DA’s administrative center to transport a case ahead.
A DA reliable, in a letter to the Texas Attorney General’s Office in quest of to withhold the data, mentioned liberating them would intrude with the DA’s ongoing prosecution efforts.
The indictment in Garcia’s drug cases states that he used to be additionally discovered in ownership of morphine all over his arrest and faces a repeat culprit enhancement because of a previous felony conviction.
He is scheduled for a court docket look in each cases on Monday.
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