According to this story from KVIA, the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas has asked the County of El Paso to investigate Sheriff Richard Wiles for attending a party that took place at the house of a convicted felon.
[Sheriff Wiles] told ABC-7 Tuesday he did attend a community event at a home in Tornillo over the weekend and it was not a fundraiser. ABC-7 also spoke with the homeowner, Ricardo Hernandez, who said there’s no reason the sheriff shouldn’t have come. “I don’t have no ties with any criminal activities,” Hernandez said.
Hernandez admitted he was convicted of marijuana possession and served a year in prison in 1995. He showed an ABC-7 crew his financial statements and records to support his claim he has only done legal work since, including running Lupita’s Grocery Store in the area. He said he has since sold that business. Hernandez said he was doing other jobs before and since, like oil field work, before being injured on the job.
Are you kidding me? A marijuana conviction in 1995? Can we make a bigger deal out of something less?
Remember, CLEAT is the crew that got El Paso Police Officer Jose Flores his job back after he got fired for shooting handcuffed prisoner Danny Saenz in the sally port of the County Jail.
I’m not sure what CLEAT hopes to achieve with an investigation. A guy had a party more than twenty years after he got convicted for pot, and the sheriff went. Is that illegal?
There comes a point when you need to question the legitimacy of these civil service unions.