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La Salle County Sheriff Anthony Zertuche pinned a deputy’s badge on the newest law enforcement officer in his agency on Friday, September 2, welcoming Adrian Ruiz to the force. Deputy Ruiz is a native of Uvalde and a 2019 graduate of the Southwest Texas Junior College Law Enforcement Academy in that city. Before joining the…

Cramped in a KIA A San Marcos-area man was remanded into custody early Sunday morning following a routine traffic stop that resulted in the apprehension of seven undocumented immigrants. On Sunday, August 28, Frio County deputies patrolling FM 140 noticed the tail light of a 2017 Kia sedan to be defective. A report on the…

COUNTY ARRESTS Sixty-seven individuals were arrested in Frio County between Tuesday, June 28, and Monday, August 22, on a range of felony and misdemeanor charges. Arrests were made by deputies of the Frio County Sheriff’s Office, troopers of the Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol, and officers of the Pearsall Police Department. In addition to…

“Committed to doing our best to deter criminal behavior,” Business owners in downtown Pearsall have been complaining for months about a sharp uptick in vandalism and broken windows. According to local barber shop owner, Blas Trevino, the storefront window to his business has been broken twice within the span of a couple of months. Just…

Monies to pay for overtime and new equipment The La Salle County Sheriff’s Office is the recipient of $200,000 in federal funding that will be used to support border security through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Operation Stonegarden Grant Program. The funding is made available to law enforcement agencies with the objective of enhancing…

“We have had to be creative…” The Southwest Area Regional Transit District was presented with the 2022 Social Media Spotlight Marketing Award by the Southwest Transit Association (SWTA) on July 26 at the Summer University Conference and Training held in Rogers, Arkansas. SWART, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary as a stand-alone transit district, was…

Approaching pre-pandemic numbers… Cotulla’s municipal economy has demonstrated a rebound to levels that were being recorded prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to financial consultant Jorge Flores, who said last week that recent tax revenues represent a new high. Flores outlined the city’s revenues and expenditures in his report to the city council Thursday, August…

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Geronimo and Alligator Creeks Watershed Partnership will offer a free feral hog management event August 25 in Seguin. The event runs from 9 a.m. to noon. Advance registration is required at https://tx.ag/Aug25FeralHog. “The workshop will include classroom presentations and outdoor demonstrations of feral hog trapping systems,” said Evgenia…

A suspect has been taken into custody by police in West Texas after he allegedly listed Encinal as one of his targets in a bombing campaign that included a threat against an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) representative. Encinal police were notified after the OSHA representative informed the department of the man’s threat shortly…