MAN ARRESTED AFTER POINTING A SHOTGUN AT TEEN
3850 Justice Dr. El Paso, Texas 79938 
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Deputy Jesse Tovar / PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Direct: (915) 538-2119
Pager: (915) 533-0733 (#5370)
Release Date / Time: MONDAY, MAY 11, 2009 12:45 PM
SECTION: El Paso County Sheriff's Office – UPPER VALLEY PATROL
EVENT: MAN ARRESTED AFTER POINTING SHOTGUN AT TEEN
LOCATION OF OCCURRENCE: 8100 block of Jesse Trigg Vinton, TX
DATE / TIME: OVER THE WEEKEND
RESULT: ARREST MADE / INVESTIGATION CONTINUES
VINTON, TX– Over the weekend, late Friday night 05-08-09, Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to a residence in Vinton, TX in reference to information of an AGGRAVATED ASSAULT that had just occurred. Deputies arrived and met with the 18 year-old Victim who told authorities he was driving his vehicle southbound on A.P. Ramirez when he noticed a vehicle directly in front of him traveling northbound in the same lane of travel. The Victim pulled his vehicle aside top avoid an accident when the other vehicle drove up along side his at about the 8100 block of A.P. Ramirez. At that instance, the driver pointed a double barrel shotgun at the Victim and then sped off.
Further investigation by on scene Deputies determined the Suspect lived in the area & they were able to get a positive identification on the suspect. At about 11:20 PM, a search for the Suspect was conducted at his residence in the 200 block of Jesse Trigg Vinton, TX. Deputies found the Suspect in the residence and took him into custody without incident.
The Suspect was identified as JOSE LUIS SALGADO (19) of the 200 block of Jesse Trigg Vinton, TX. SALGADO was booked at the El Paso County Detention Facility.
ARRESTED:
JOSE LUIS SALGADO (19)
CHARGE:
KAGGRAVATED ASSAULT W/ DEADLY WEAPON - $1,000 BOND
(NOTE: INDIVIDUAL ARRESTED / SHOWN ABOVE ARE PRESUMED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW)
INVESTIGATION CONTINUES
NO OTHER INFORMATION WILL BE RELEASED 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.