seem feasible to me that outside on Gyna Lane in the Val Verde Park THEFT ees, Jessica Hernandez not described in the and Jose Trevino, take complaint. From Page 1A you have someone out- Estates area. Deputies From Page 1A items without purchas- The total value of the side of the person that’s went to the area but ing them,” Zambrano stolen merchandise enforce rabies control responsible for animal were unable to find the of Home Depot were wrote. was given as $778.92. in the county.” control as the sheriff is, animal. found to be stealing The Home Depot in- “(I) was shown se- He said he brought to have someone else Cerny said the girl items,” Zambrano vestigator told police, curity camera footage the issue before the looking over his shoul- had to take a series of wrote in an affidavit he “In the process of ring- of the incident which court in November der,” Cerny said. rabies vaccine shots filed in the case. ing up items, Hernan- showed Hernandez 2014 and said the Cerny said the since the animal could “Clapper stated that dez would cancel the ring up the items county animal con- county could name the not be found, but on Nov. 16, an item then taking trol order in place at sheriff as the county’s noted he later spoke incident was from the items out that time designated rabies control author- to the mother, and she created within the of the trans- the county animal ity since the county’s claimed the child had Home Depot’s trans- action but control officer as the animal control officer suffered no ill effects automated ac- keeping them county rabies control will also be working for from the shots. system show- tion, in the cart. (I) authority. the sheriff. Cerny said he did not ing that (the mak- noted that at During that 2014 Cerny said the learn of the incident sale) of several ing it the end of the meeting, Cerny said, appointment is import- until a week after it items (was) ap- transaction, the court rescinded the ant because concerns occurred. suspended, pear Trevino then county’s existing ani- about rabies continue “This is what showing that that grabbed two mal control order and to be an issue in the prompted me to put someone had Jose Trevino the Jessica Hernandez sodas and paid appointed him as the county because of the that item on the attempted to item for the items, county’s rabies control large numbers of stray (commissioners court) stop a transaction and was rung up but in then walked the items authority. dogs, especially in agenda, because you possibly hold the items reality it was not.” out to his vehicle and Cerny said, “We get a areas like Val Verde see the disconnection for someone,” Zambra- Clapper claimed placed them in the lot of calls, and I think Park Estates and here,” he said. no wrote. Hernandez did this rear and drove off there needs to be some Cienegas Terrace. He “On Nov. 17, a lady The officer noted with several items: without paying for the thought given as to who did note, however, that walked into the sher- Clapper told him that a seven-and-a-half- merchandise,” Zam- should be the rabies no confirmed cases iff’s office complaining “holding items was foot tall tree, valued brano wrote. control authority.” of rabies have been about a stray white flagged in the automat- at $399; an inflatable Zambrano reported Last year, he said, the recorded in Val Verde pit bull roaming the ed system since thefts Santa, valued at $99; he was given a state- court created an animal County so far this neighborhood, and she occur frequently with an electric blower, ment from the Home control department year. made mention that held items.” valued at $149; a Depot investigator, since the county was in Cerny recounted a re- this dog had recently “Clapper stated that turkey fryer, valued as well as the video the process of build- cent incident in which bitten her neighbor’s when he arrived in Del at $59; an air tank, footage. ing an animal control a 10-year-old girl was daughter, so she was Rio on Nov. 29 to con- valued at $30.97; Justice of the Peace facility. That facility, bitten by a dog in the concerned that this duct his investigation peanut oil, valued at Pct. 1 Jim Bob Barrera he said, is about “three Val Verde Park Estates dog was still roaming,” and while checking se- $29.97; and an item Sr. set bond for Her- weeks to a month” area of the county. Cerny said. curity camera footage, called “400ARHRLS,” nandez and Trevino at away from completion. Cerny said about Cerny said VVSO Lt. he noticed two employ- valued at $11.98 but $1,800 each. The court, he said, 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 14, Manuel “Manny” Her- placed the animal con- sheriff’s office deputies rera called the city’s trol department under were dispatched to the animal control staff, the purview of the Val emergency room at Val whose members were Verde County Sheriff’s Verde Regional Medical able to trap the dog and Office. Center to meet with a place it into quarantine “Basically what we woman and her 10-year- the dog for 10 days until have is, we have the old daughter. it could be euthanized. sheriff in charge of that, The woman told dep- “This was a stray and we have a position uties a white pit bull dog, and no one was in the sheriff’s office had bitten her daughter able to find an owner,” for an animal control while she was playing Cerny said.
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