FACILITATING: SPARE THE CHANCLA, THEN MORE SERIOUS CHARGES

Special to El Rrun-Rrun

As one of your loyal seven readers, I notice that some of your subjects tend to reappear on your cyberpages. 

Call them the usual suspects that predictably reappear on the inmate lists of the Brownsville Police Dept. They start off with PI, possession of marijuana or cocaine, DWI, assaults in bars, and as they grow up, instances of family violence and more serious felony charges.

These bad boys (and girls) seem to reappear on the police blotter time after time as the seriousness of their alleged violations escalate in seriousness. 

Some of these alleged violations are ascribed to youthful indiscretion and defended by their facilitators with the excuse that "boys will be boys."

I call your attention to the Tuesday, July 12, 2022 arrest of Ricardo Ray Chavira III. 

He has been featured in the past on both your pages and on the police blotter. The charges this time include a third-degree family violence assault felony charge where he "impeded breath" (choked?) and then interfered with the victim calling police for assistance.

The last time that Chavira had a scrape with police was back in January 2013 when he was charged with possession of marijuana. And just three months later, he was arrested and charged with inducing the sexual performance of a minor and with possession of child pornography.

His mother Rachel Arellano (of all people) blamed the alleged victim and a social media pundit (Erasmo Castro) – who she followed – jokingly blamed his use of ganja, the wicked weed, that made him do prurient things with little girls. 

At that time, Chavira, then 18, had been cajoling a 16-year-old girl to send him nude pictures of herself. His mother insisted on Erasmo's page that she was a little hoe (whore) and that her little boy was "in love" with her. 

For those who knew the players in this "drama." involving this adult and this minor "hoe," let's just say that Ms. Arellano was the daughter of a 25-year veteran of a Brownsville Police Dept. officer and Chavira is his grandson.

Why does this matter?
Because Rachel Arallano, in attempting to defend her son's actions with the minor, said that the detectives with the BPD "are working with the (victim's) parents. He's helping because he knows the facts."

Later, she posted on the same site that the detectives were hoping the parents of the victim would not follow through on the charges and ascribed his actions to a youthful indiscretion that could be taken care of with a little bit of Mexican parental discipline.
"Love makes you do stupid shit...He will get the chankla at home..."

And it was revealed by the local daily that not only had Chavira asked for more nude photos of the girl but police accused him of threatening to post her nude pictures on social media if she refused.

Cheezme followed up her offensive by posting a photo from the police blotter and blaming the weed. "See what marijuana does!!!," he quipped.

Now that the most recent charges against bad boy Chavira have escalated to family violence assault for allegedly choking his mate, will his facilitators try to blame the victim again and use granddaddy's buddies at the cop shop to cover for their little boy?

Let's see. We have Bob Hendrix from Pan American Cargo Lines spending years behind bars for sending and receiving child pornography. 

And coincidentally, at about the same time Hendrix was sentenced, a local television station reported that a 35-year-old Edcouch-Elsa mariachi instructor was being charged with engaging in sexual activity with a 16-year-old (almost 17?) student and had apparently been doing this sort of thing for some time.

If Chavira gets off easy this time through the interference of grandpa's buddies at the PD, will we see him resurface again in 10 or 15 years from now with some more serious crime? And are the facilitators of these alleged violators really doing them any favors by downplaying the crimes as youthful indiscretions instead of nipping that kind of behavior in the bud?