MAN TASERED AT WET N’ WILD AFTER BECOMING COMBATIVE WITH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES
3850 Justice El Paso, TX 79938
NEWS RELEASE
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: Monday, May 24, 2010 9:50 AM
SECTION: El Paso County Sheriff's Office (UPPER VALLEY PATROL)
EVENT: MAN TASERED AT WET N’WILD AFTER BECOMING COMBATIVE WITH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES
LOCATION OF OCCURRENCE: 8804 S. Desert Anthony, TX (Wet n’ Wild)
DATE / TIME: Sunday, May 23, 2010 8:10 pm
RESULT: ARREST MADE - Investigation Continues
ANTHONY, TX- On Sunday night 05-23-10 at about 8:10 am, Sheriff’s Deputies were called to 8804 S. Desert, Wet and Wild Water Park, in reference to a disturbance involving a fight. Units arrived & assisted off-duty Constables / Anthony police Department personnel in securing the park. As Deputies were on site, they were flagged down by several people alerting them to an area where subjects were allegedly breaking car windshields. Deputies responded to the reported area & located a subject matching the description given in the northwest corner of the parking lot. Deputies made contact with the male subject who was highly intoxicated. The subject became uncooperative & hostile challenging authorities to a physical confrontation. At that point, a Sheriff’s Deputy deployed his taser gun & tasered the subject who continued to resist despite being stun. Deputies were finally able to subdue & control the combative subject.
The subject was identified as NATAN ACOSTA-GARCIA (28) of Mesquite, NM. He was arrested & booked on charges of PUBLIC INTOXICATION & RESISTING ARREST. GARCIA was found not to be involved in the initial criminal mischief reports but was highly intoxicated & combative as Deputies made contact with him.
NATAN ACOSTA-GARCIA (28)
CHARGES:
RESISTING ARREST- $1,500 BOND
PUBLIC INTOXICATION - $500 BOND
INVESTIGATION CONTINUES
NO OTHER INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME.
END OF NEWS RELEASE
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.