MAN TASERED AFTER A VIOLENT ASSAULT ON DEPUTIES DURING FAMILY VIOLENCE INCIDENT
3850 Justice El Paso, TX 79938
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Contact: Deputy Jesse Tovar / PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Direct: (915) 538-2119
Pager: (915) 533-0733 (#5370)
EMAIL: jtovar@epcounty.com
Website: EPCSO.ORG
Release Date / Time: Sunday, May 23, 2010 1:55 PM
SECTION: El Paso County Sheriff's Office (UPPER VALLEY PATROL)
EVENT: MAN TASERED AFTER VIOLENT ASSAULT ON DEPUTIES DURING FAMV INCIDENT
LOCATION OF OCCURRENCE: 1500 block of Tiffany, Westway , TX
DATE / TIME: Saturday, May 22, 2010 3:10 am
RESULT: ARREST MADE - Investigation Continues
EL PASO COUNTY, TX- Early Saturday morning 05/22 at 3:10 am, Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the 1500 block of Tiffany, in Westway, TX in reference to a family Violence in progress. Deputies arrived and heard a scuffle inside the residence. As Deputies entered the home, they observed a male subject run into a back bedroom of the residence & closed the door. Deputies were able to gain access into the unlocked room where male subject began violently swinging at Deputies with closed fists. Deputies had to taser the combative subject to get him under control. A Sheriff’s Deputy suffered minor injuries during the struggle.
The subject was identified as RAFAEL DIAZ JR. (32) of Westway, TX. He was booked at EPCDF on several charges.
RAFAEL DIAZ JR. (32)
ASSAULT / FAMILY VIOLENCE - $2,500 BOND
ASSAULT ON A PUBLIC SERVANT - $2,500 BOND
RESISTING ARREST- $750 BOND
INTERFERENCE WITH EMERGENCY PHONE CALL - $750 BOND
INVESTIGATION CONTINUES
NO OTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME.
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The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office in March of 2001 was the first Sheriff’s Office in the State of Texas to be Internationally Accredited from CALEA and is now the recipient of the First CALEA Tri-Arc award in Texas (4th in the Nation) to have accreditations in: Law Enforcement, Communications, Training Academy.