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College Station police (CSPD) arrested four men by mistake for the burglary of an apartment and assaulting a resident last December.
WTAW News has invited College Station’s police chief to be interviewed and/or provide a statement about what happened.
Assistant Brazos County district attorney Jessica Escue told WTAW News that CSPD investigators identified the four original suspects after comparing surveillance video with photographs.
Escue says three days after the original four were arrested, one of the men came to the D-A’s office with his parents and their lawyer. Escue says they provided information which proved that none of the four were involved.
Then the DA’s office contacted CSPD with the new information. Escue says CSPD “determined that in fact the four original suspects had been misidentified and the correct perpetrators of the burglary were in fact four different individuals.”
Photos of (L-R) Santiago Vidaurri, Marcelo Masso, Pedro Cardenas, and Francisco La Garza.
That led in the D-A’s office immediately rejecting the prosecution of Pedro Cardenas, Santiago Vidaurri, Marcelo Masso, and Francisco La Garza.Escue says the arrests of the four men will be expunged, meaning there will be no record of what happened.
Escue also says she does not remember this set of circumstances happening in her 16 years with the D-A’s office.
She went on to say that “The district attorney’s office as well as law enforcement are committed to making sure that we hold the correct people accountable for offenses and that we do not charge incorrect people. And so we are always eager and willing to listen if there is additional evidence out there to say that we made a wrong call.”
Cardenas, who contacted WTAW News and provided documents from the DA’s office showing prosecution was rejected, issued the following statement:
"I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the College Station DA office and the College Station Police Department for the unwavering commitment to justice in the wake of the events on January 23, 2024. Your persistence and dedication to resolving this matter have not gone unnoticed, and I am deeply appreciative of your efforts.
Lieutenant Harris, Detective Lovelace, and all members of the College Station Police Department involved in the reinvestigation of my case, your thoroughness and diligence in rectifying the injustice I faced have brought a sense of relief during a challenging time. Your commitment to upholding justice has been instrumental in restoring faith in the legal system."
"I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the College Station DA office and the College Station Police Department for the unwavering commitment to justice in the wake of the events on January 23, 2024. Your persistence and dedication to resolving this matter have not gone unnoticed, and I am deeply appreciative of your efforts.
Lieutenant Harris, Detective Lovelace, and all members of the College Station Police Department involved in the reinvestigation of my case, your thoroughness and diligence in rectifying the injustice I faced have brought a sense of relief during a challenging time. Your commitment to upholding justice has been instrumental in restoring faith in the legal system."
Click on link to read rest of the story: https://wtaw.com/brazos-county-district-attorneys-office-rejects-prosecuting-four-men-who-were-wrongly-arrested-2/
23 comments:
So who or what did they confuse them with?
I SMELL A VALLEY RATA!
Interesting how 3 of the four are wearing black 2 of them wearing black hoodies hmmm
3 wearing black 2 with hoodies
What a surprise! Four spoiled St. Joe brats are gonna get away with committing a crime? I don't believe it! This town is a sewer full of fucking criminals. The mere fact that people are "PROUD" to be from the valley is nauseating.
shame on the DA office from College station! So, why have they not provided the real pictures of the real culprits? This is the same old, same old chingaders that are very common with current politicos and that is why our world is as shitty as it is becoming.
Nobody respect anyone one anymore and no one is taught good from bad anymore. They are taught how to fill their jean pockets so that can have a free ride the rest of their lifes, like all those St. Joe crap that now run the city. Chingado, when are we going to learn? And excuse me for using disrespectful words, but it just gets to be too much and so those words make a strong sound!
You hate on us SJA graduate’s because we are successful, respected in the community and usually achieve wealth at a higher level. Most of us leave Brownsville because it is embarrassing to be from there.
I repeat "where's the video?". Supposedly it was their appearance on a video that got them in trouble in first place, so if it was mistaken identity then show the video to exonerate them in the court of public opinion. Otherwise there will always be doubt!!
Who cares it wasn't them, end of the story! Stop wasting time on this.
Where are the mugshots of their doppelgängers?
What had really happened was: hahaha
These kids were at church.
These students were making copies of a rare book for the coming semester.
These AM students were jogging around campus while the other students were beating up a person.
These students were helping their two female friends fix their cars that broke down at the same time and at the same place.
A MALE UT student stole money from a female student. The campus police could not figure out anything. The punishment was: all were friends but now they knew some were less friends than others. They were all rich students at UT living in NICE apartment complexes. The rich stealing the rich.
This case is also similar: the rich students beating up another rich student.
They will figure out how to get their justice.
Rookies!
Tomorrows gangsters!
I'm gonna call bullshit
The mug shots were taken months after the incident.
If you would comprehend what you read, you would have picked that up.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
You hate on us SJA graduate’s because we are successful, respected in the community and usually achieve wealth at a higher level. Most of us leave Brownsville because it is embarrassing to be from there.
February 27, 2024 at 11:32 AM
You got it. Take it away!!!!
You achieve wealth because your great grandparents started stealing from the poor. You leave Brownsville because the people here know your story.
It is embarrassing to be from here because even innocent kids know your kind.
Go and steal and lie in other lands.
This is a response to the person who said "You hate on us SJA graduate’s because we are successful, respected in the community and usually achieve wealth at a higher level." Yeah, that's because those of you who are born with a silver spoon jammed up your ass have more opportunities that make it much easier to "achieve wealth at a higher level" you moron! It's called common sense, something they obviously forgot to teach at your fancy school....and trust me when I say that you St. Joe grads are nowhere near as "respected in the community" as you would like to think. Anyone who respects some rich prick who has never had to work one day in their life but has everything is fucking retarded! Personally, I wouldn't piss on your spoiled ass if you were on fire!
Don’t hate on thé SJA people. Did you choose your elementary or HS? No! Neither did they! Truth be told, y’all are just jealous you didn’t have the opportunities they had because you grew up poor. That’s the honest truth, it may not be the case anymore, we’ve all advanced in life, even myself, I am no longer living on government assistance as I did growing up in the Riverside area. At the end of the day, let’s just be real, we were all jealous, we all wanted to live a nice life as they did, we all wanted a good family with both parents support in anything we did, and we all wanted the nice family vacations in the summer not affiliated with working in the fields. If anything I thank SJA for setting a standard on how I wanted to be like. Although I didn’t go to SJA I’m equally successful, I’ve traveled all over the world, live in a beautiful house, and paid for my children’s university. Point is, it doesn’t matter where you start, all that matters is where you finish!
Iam sure we will see the mugshots of the really criminales very soon, and when that happens Iam sure there will still be people saying it’s a lie, then we will probably see when they get sentenced, and still people will say it was the st Joe 4, I think the damage has already been done. That’s to bad for the 4 innocent men.
February 28, 2924 at 5:57 PM
"It doesn’t matter where you start, all that matters is where you finish!" I agree with this statement. However, I have never been jealous of these people. I had the love and support of two loving parents growing up. Everybody reaps what they sow.
People are entitled to there opinions. You know the saying "opinions are like assholes everybody has one and they all stink."
This goes to "Don't hate on SJA people." You're hilarious!!! What, do you just assume everyone from this shit pit grew up with only one parent? I grew up with both, they had jobs and we had a decent house. People aren't "hating" on these little pricks for going to St. Joe, they don't respect them because the majority of them behave like entitled, pretentious fucks!!! Also, as the other person said, jealousy has nothing to do with it. Just because you were jealous, doesn't mean everyone else was.
Looky looky, I guess it wasn’t the boys from Saint Joe’s
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/LHCr3Jo5gmdhAcYr/?mibextid=WC7FNe
Are you going to continue to say it was them?
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