... is Santiago Barrera, Jr., Sheriff of Duval County, Texas. For twenty years or so, Sheriff Barrera has apparently been deciding what is and what isn't the "law" in that particular area of the country. As this article reports, "He decided who sat in his jail and when they were released. Sometimes it was before a judge got involved and other times it was after."
Sheriff Barrera seems to have finally overstepped his bounds, with the press, at least. He got upset when a local paper published a story about the arrest of his 42-year-old screwup son on public intoxication and resisting arrest charges, presumably robbing him of the chance to make it all go away quietly. When the same reporter then contacted him about a different story entirely, the good sheriff informed the scribe that "'If you guys keep interfering with my business, I'm going to have you arrested.'" (Emphasis mine)
The sheriff not only doesn't deny making the remarks, he actually confirms doing so, telling the Associated Press, "'To me that was bad [the story about his son]...of course, what can you do to them [the press]?'"
Not lock them up for pissing you off, to the sheriff's seeming displeasure.
Fortunately, Barrera's control of his personal fiefdom may soon be coming to an end. A local commander of a local multi-county drug task force, Romeo Ramirez, recently won the primary campaign to unseat Barrera, despite Barrera's arranging of the demotion of Ramirez to patrol officer after Ramirez announced his intention to run against the sheriff.
Hopefully, the residents of Duval County will soon put this chicken-fried good ol' boy law enforcement officer out to pasture for good.
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