Tuesday, July 24, 2018

ONCE A RISING POLITICAL STAR, RIOS NOW ON THE LAM

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

He once drew 30 percent of the vote in the election for Place 6 on the Texas Southmost College bard of trustees.

Now, a court has issued a capias – and arrest warrant – after he failed to appear in the court to face a DWI charge May 30.

Carlos Rios, who barely missed out in getting into a runoff with Dr. Rey Garcia for an election  runoff this past June 23, failed to appear for his court hearing and Cameron County Court-at-Law #3 Judge David Gonzalez issued the arrest warrant.

Rios finished with 30.1 percent of the vote, 1,971 votes, in the May 5 primary election behind J.J. De Leon (34.5 percent) and incumbent Rey Garcia (34.5). De Leon prevailed in the runoff with 62 percent of the vote over Garcia.

On May 17 – 12 days after he lost in the May 5 primary –  Rios was charged with a second DWI, a Class A misdemeanor, after being found asleep at the wheel at the Whataburger on the 200 block of FM 802 early Thursday morning.

He has yet to go to court on that arrest.

The arrest warrant that Gonzalez issued against Rios was for a previous DWI arrest. When he ran for the TSC board this year, no one knew he was in court on the first DWI. 

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

If only he had befriended Ben Neece. LOL

Anonymous said...

Yes. Ben would have tried to expunge his record and then got him a job with the City.

Cheech n chong said...

pure corruption not what we need. We already got enuff of that bad stuff all over

Anonymous said...

Lol! Does not suprise me . This character was bas news since the beginning, im glad people saw through his bullshit

Anonymous said...

Rios ran with courage and passion. Bet we'll be hearing more about him.

Anonymous said...

isnt he like 23 years old? i would drink and smoke daily without a care at that age

Anonymous said...

id buy the guy a beer. you too juan

Anonymous said...

Just another Balley wanna be politico. He is irresponsible and crooked like the rest. Nothing to see here move along!

Anonymous said...

Typical politician in Cameron County.

rita