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The grand jury indicted him on April 13, 2022, but this did not stop him from continuing his "one-man" crime wave, according to DA Luis Saenz.
"On Wednesday, June 22 I will present two more cases to the grand jury on the charges of burglary of a habitation with intent to commit a felony (three times) and a kidnapping case," Saenz said.
Saenz said that the June 6 cases where Soto is charged with shooting a driver and trying to kill his wife who was a passenger in the car had not been turned in to his office and that he will present them to the jury when they are.
The question remains: What was Soto doing loose in the city when he had three felony charges against him and was still granted bond by municipal judges?
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A 22-year-old Brownsville man arrested for a road rage shooting that happened June 6 was taken into custody Monday and arraigned on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of deadly conduct.
Police say Joe Kevin Soto is being held without bond in connection to a road rage encounter in which someone was shot and injured. Police say they arrived at the 400 block of Old Port Isabel Road in Brownsville to find blood and 45-caliber bullet casings.
Police allege that Joe Kevin Soto got out of his vehicle and shot a man and tried to shoot the man’s wife. Bond was denied on all the counts.
But what was Soto doing outside of custody – and jail – in the first place?
So in less than a year Soto was charged with three previous serious felonies involving firearms, kidnapping, multiple home burglaries, and now a road rage shooting...and he was still free on the streets before he shot his latest victim.
In the latest incident, when Brownsville detectives talked to the victim, “who claimed that a maroon SUV was trying to crash his vehicle. Both vehicles stopped at the 400 block of Old Port Isabel. The victim got out of his vehicle, and Soto exited the SUV. Soto then shot the victim and also attempted to shoot his passenger,” they said.
The injured man’s wife drove him to the hospital, authorities said.
Using video surveillance from businesses in the area, detectives were able to identify the suspect and his vehicle.
A 22-year-old Brownsville man arrested for a road rage shooting that happened June 6 was taken into custody Monday and arraigned on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of deadly conduct.
Police say Joe Kevin Soto is being held without bond in connection to a road rage encounter in which someone was shot and injured. Police say they arrived at the 400 block of Old Port Isabel Road in Brownsville to find blood and 45-caliber bullet casings.
Police allege that Joe Kevin Soto got out of his vehicle and shot a man and tried to shoot the man’s wife. Bond was denied on all the counts.
But what was Soto doing outside of custody – and jail – in the first place?
Some police officers acquainted with Soto's arrest record say that despite his recent brushes with the law on serious felony charges for violent crimes, lenient City of Brownsville judges and county magistrates kept releasing him on bond to sin again.
In fact, he hasn't even been indicted by a jury or charged in district court with any of the past alleged felonies, meaning that he committed all these violations while out o bond of the previous charges, according to the Cameron County District Court public portal entries.
His rap sheet reads like a gangster's record:
*On June 25, 2021 he was arraigned by a City of Brownsville judge for unlawfully carrying a weapon, a third-degree felony...and let him out on bond
*On Monday, February 28, 2022 – only six months later – he was charged with burglary of a habitation (times 3) to commit a felony, a first-degree felony...and let out on bond
*On Friday, April 22, he was again arrested, this time for kidnapping, a third-degree felony...and let out on bond
*And last Monday, June 13, he was arrested for the road rage shooting that happened a week earlier, on June 6
In the latest incident, when Brownsville detectives talked to the victim, “who claimed that a maroon SUV was trying to crash his vehicle. Both vehicles stopped at the 400 block of Old Port Isabel. The victim got out of his vehicle, and Soto exited the SUV. Soto then shot the victim and also attempted to shoot his passenger,” they said.
The injured man’s wife drove him to the hospital, authorities said.
Using video surveillance from businesses in the area, detectives were able to identify the suspect and his vehicle.
But the question remains: Why was this obviously dangerous individual allowed to go free after all those serious charges and let loose to endanger the lives of regular citizens?
27 comments:
D.A. is a bit late on this.
get on his ass, Montoya.
So why are you running cover for the magistrate judge who let him walk?
He didn’t paint any graffiti that’s why he wasn’t arrested!
are they gonna work 12 months a year JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE?? Of course not, its not their money bisd elected officials. If it were they they'd be working 12 months JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE HUEVONES....
VOTE ALL OF THEM OUT, THERE ARE MORE VOTING CITIZENS THAN TEACHERS, 99% OF TEXAS TEACHERS ARE RACIST REPUBLICANS.... fact c/s
Defund the police and release criminals. Keep voting Democrat.
FBI where are you? Enough is enough RATAS galore, now criminal at large? Isn't it enough that we have elected officials screwing the locals, now we have to deal with dangerous individuals roaming city streets. Some have crated small empires where they can operate within the city (cob), now we have also cameron county (both) harboring criminals.
Chief Felix "El Chapete" Sauceda, his command staff and the rest of the Brownsville Police Department would like to remind citizens that it if was not for him, this guy would have never been arrested again. Sauceda, an ex-cheerleader with the Porter Nation, has never investigated a single case in his career since he has never been in a detective role. If anything, as a supervisor, he has led the Brownsville Police Department in romantic flings with administrative staff, while his step-son, Commander Mamalouie has been able to keep every relationship a secret.
It's no secret that most at PD do not respect this "man", but fear retaliation if they speak up. The one things that "El Chapete" has been good at is ordering his staff to take pictures of him, at any event, and make sure that his picture is the first one posted.
Cronyism, in Brownsville...I don't believe it. 😯
Inquiring minds wanna know!
Magistrate judges trying to be like black judges in the black infested inner cities. Chicanos here though. The kind of person Trump was talking about on that escalator in 2015.
Soto’s connection to District Attorney Office is really paying off for him.
VIVA MEXICO!
¡Qué lejos estoy del suelo donde he nacido!
inmensa nostalgia invade mi pensamiento;
y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento,
quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento.
¡Oh Tierra del Sol! Suspiro por verte
ahora que lejos yo vivo sin luz, sin amor;
y al verme tan solo y triste cual hoja al viento,
quisiera llorar, quisiera morir de sentimiento.
Its NOT required for a judge to wear a robe BUT THEY DO AS IF THEY ARE SOME KIND OF A GOD pinches mamones TAKE THE ROBE OFFF!!!!!!
Trump still free.
White people get away with everything.
fact.
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I just want to know who his attorney is? He must have good connections.
June 18, 2022 at 6:37 AM
mojados, no se van por mamones!
This story reminds me of prisoner, Johnny Hernandez who escaped, fled to San Benito and shot it out with deputies. Sounds like this Soto was on the same type of track? Knowing that the Cameron County Sheriff Office is short of jailers? Let's hope that they keep more of an eye on this guy?
June 18, 2022. @6:37 a.m.
Pues regresa a tu Mexico lindo y querido. Por que se que te vas y vas y no te as hido.
E.S.C.R.A.P.E.
una conversación entre 1:32pm y su mama
1:32pm: mamá mamá, por qué no puedo ser chingón como los demás y por qué no me seleccionan para estar en un equipo?
Mamá: ayi hijo, te lo he dicho muchas veces. Ya sabes que es porque eres todo un panochon. Bueno, su lechecita y a dormir, cabrón!
This is why you to stop 🛑 using drugs.
He is just another brick in the wall. Esta loco el dude. Es uno de Los Vatos Locos de Brownsville. Que Trieste si no te ries lloras.
June 18, 2022 at 6:37 AM
GO BACK TO MEJICO PICHE MOJADO...MAMON Y PIDICHES!
"I will present to grand jury"?
Look at Saenz take all credit. BPD and sheriffs office investigators along with good DA workers did all the work.
To the criminals out there, spent a little dough on the legal system it might help you in the future, look at this guy it did once, pero la cago.. idiota...
they do it on purpose so at the end they all look good and get re-elected again and again and aaaagggg....
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