Former Houston cop who thought A/C repairman was a voter fraud mastermind indicted on felony assault charge
A Harris County grand jury on Tuesday indicted former Houston police captain Mark Aguirre on an assault charge after he was accused of running a man off the road and pointing to a gun to his head because he thought he was committing voter fraud in the run-up to the 2020 election.
Aguirre will face a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. The trial currently is scheduled to begin in February.
Prosecutors allege Aguirre slammed into the back of an air conditioning repairman’s truck at about 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 19 of last year. He pulled a gun, forced the repairman to the ground and put a knee on his back. He ordered another person to search the truck. A police officer happened upon the scene shortly after.
Aguirre, who was fired by the police department in 2003, would later tell investigators he was conducting a “citizens investigation” into an alleged ballot harvesting scheme he thought was orchestrated by local Democrats. He told police they would find hundreds of thousands of ballots in the repairman’s truck.
They found only air conditioning parts and tools. Aguirre said he had been following the repairman for four days.
Aguirre, a licensed private investigator at the time, was hired to investigate fraud claims and paid about $266,400 by the Liberty Center for God and Country around the time of the incident. That group is led by Steven Hotze, the local conservative activist, and Jared Woodfill, the former Harris County Republican Party chairman.
The former captain was fired by Houston police for his handling of a 2003 street-racing raid that saw 278 people arrested. All of their charges — mostly trespassing, unrelated to the racing — were dropped, and 32 officers were disciplined.
Aguirre was arrested last December on the felony assault charge.
Terry Yates, Aguirre's attorney, said he was surprised it took a year to get the indictment and he looks forward to proving Aguirre's innocence at trial.
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So, I'm sitting on the couch, and there's a children's book resting near the corner of the coffee table, overhanging it a bit. Spinnaker cat comes sauntering across the coffee table, walks across the corner of the book not supported by the table, turning it into a giant gravity experiment, whereat the cat begins to fall; and, being a Calico, freaks out and goes pins out...and deep into my right leg in a vain attempt to regain footing, and pulling with her weight. At which point, not seeing that coming, I let out a yowl of pain and surprise. Whereat the Calico darts away and looks back shocked. At which Mizzen the Tiger cat thinks I've turned into some sort of aggressor, bounds over and bites a big scrape across my left arm! So now I'm bleeding from right leg and left arm and thinking "What the heck just happened?!!" Spinnaker has been known to freak out before, but Mizzen has never turned on me like that! And the biggest surprise is that she must still love her sister a lot to have attacked the person who feeds, brushes and cuddles them both! =Sheesh!= I was just sitting here! No more books on the coffee table!
And now they are each curled up beside me, all snuggled in: Spinnaker on my left and Mizzen on my right. They were rattled for awhile afterward (as was I), but seem to have left it behind them. Give me a week or two to heal. Heh. But each time something like this happens (which is not often!), I trust them a little less.
Ah, conditioned (or instinctive) responses. I will spare you the details, but this past Autumn, while harvesting persimmons I missed the last step descending the ladder, lost my balance while turning, and without hesitation continued into a flèche (a fencing move that begins by throwing oneself off balance--Wikipedia's description is poor), avoided some potential dangers, and ended up sprawled out on the nice safe lawn. If it hadn't been for that conditioning FIFTY YEARS AGO, I could have been hurt. For superficial injuries like cat scratches, I have good luck with trisporin ointment (the cream not so much). Yes, no more books on the edge of the table!
Not clear--the *fleche* was conditioning from fencing fifty years ago. And BTW, the photographic illustration of a fleche on Wikipedia absolutely makes me cringe--the fencer using it clearly has not been taught properly--he's just a "hamburger."
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DeleteFormer Houston cop who thought A/C repairman was a voter fraud mastermind indicted on felony assault charge
ReplyDeleteA Harris County grand jury on Tuesday indicted former Houston police captain Mark Aguirre on an assault charge after he was accused of running a man off the road and pointing to a gun to his head because he thought he was committing voter fraud in the run-up to the 2020 election.
Aguirre will face a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. The trial currently is scheduled to begin in February.
Prosecutors allege Aguirre slammed into the back of an air conditioning repairman’s truck at about 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 19 of last year. He pulled a gun, forced the repairman to the ground and put a knee on his back. He ordered another person to search the truck. A police officer happened upon the scene shortly after.
Aguirre, who was fired by the police department in 2003, would later tell investigators he was conducting a “citizens investigation” into an alleged ballot harvesting scheme he thought was orchestrated by local Democrats. He told police they would find hundreds of thousands of ballots in the repairman’s truck.
They found only air conditioning parts and tools. Aguirre said he had been following the repairman for four days.
Aguirre, a licensed private investigator at the time, was hired to investigate fraud claims and paid about $266,400 by the Liberty Center for God and Country around the time of the incident. That group is led by Steven Hotze, the local conservative activist, and Jared Woodfill, the former Harris County Republican Party chairman.
The former captain was fired by Houston police for his handling of a 2003 street-racing raid that saw 278 people arrested. All of their charges — mostly trespassing, unrelated to the racing — were dropped, and 32 officers were disciplined.
Aguirre was arrested last December on the felony assault charge.
Terry Yates, Aguirre's attorney, said he was surprised it took a year to get the indictment and he looks forward to proving Aguirre's innocence at trial.
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DeleteI am reminded of a person active in formation of the East German government (I don't recall his name or role) who said that at the end of WWII all they had was Walter Ulbricht and a few potatoes.
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ReplyDeleteSo, I'm sitting on the couch, and there's a children's book resting near the corner of the coffee table, overhanging it a bit. Spinnaker cat comes sauntering across the coffee table, walks across the corner of the book not supported by the table, turning it into a giant gravity experiment, whereat the cat begins to fall; and, being a Calico, freaks out and goes pins out...and deep into my right leg in a vain attempt to regain footing, and pulling with her weight. At which point, not seeing that coming, I let out a yowl of pain and surprise. Whereat the Calico darts away and looks back shocked. At which Mizzen the Tiger cat thinks I've turned into some sort of aggressor, bounds over and bites a big scrape across my left arm! So now I'm bleeding from right leg and left arm and thinking "What the heck just happened?!!" Spinnaker has been known to freak out before, but Mizzen has never turned on me like that! And the biggest surprise is that she must still love her sister a lot to have attacked the person who feeds, brushes and cuddles them both! =Sheesh!= I was just sitting here! No more books on the coffee table!
ReplyDeleteAnd now they are each curled up beside me, all snuggled in: Spinnaker on my left and Mizzen on my right. They were rattled for awhile afterward (as was I), but seem to have left it behind them. Give me a week or two to heal. Heh. But each time something like this happens (which is not often!), I trust them a little less.
DeleteAh, conditioned (or instinctive) responses. I will spare you the details, but this past Autumn, while harvesting persimmons I missed the last step descending the ladder, lost my balance while turning, and without hesitation continued into a flèche (a fencing move that begins by throwing oneself off balance--Wikipedia's description is poor), avoided some potential dangers, and ended up sprawled out on the nice safe lawn. If it hadn't been for that conditioning FIFTY YEARS AGO, I could have been hurt. For superficial injuries like cat scratches, I have good luck with trisporin ointment (the cream not so much). Yes, no more books on the edge of the table!
DeleteNot clear--the *fleche* was conditioning from fencing fifty years ago. And BTW, the photographic illustration of a fleche on Wikipedia absolutely makes me cringe--the fencer using it clearly has not been taught properly--he's just a "hamburger."
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