DWI DRIVER WITH CHILDREN IN VEHICLE ARRESTED
3850 Justice Dr. El Paso, Texas 79938 
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Release Date / Time: Friday, July 24, 2009 1:50 PM
SECTION: El Paso County Sheriff's Office – STRIKE TEAM
EVENT: STRIKE TEAM ARREST DWI DRIVER W/ CHILDREN IN VEHICLE
LOCATION OF OCCURRENCE: 7400 block of Alameda El Paso County, TX
DATE / TIME: Thursday , July 23, 2009 6:30PM
RESULT: ARRESTS MADE / CHILDREN FOUND IN VEHICLE
El Paso County, TX- On Thursday, July 23, 2009, at 6:30 PM, Strike Team Deputies were patrolling near the 7400 block of Alameda in the Lower Valley when they observed a blue Buick Regal traveling westbound at a high rate of speed. Sheriff Deputies with radar in unit clocked the vehicle traveling at 56 mph, in a posted 40 mile per hour zone. Deputies conducted a traffic stop on the said vehicle 7400 block Alameda, El Paso County Texas. Deputies made contact with the driver & immediately smelled a strong odor of an unknown alcoholic beverage coming from his breath & person, he also had slurred speech & bloodshot eyes. Deputies also observed two children in the vehicle. The driver was then asked to standardized field sobriety test and he agreed. The driver failed the field sobriety tests & intoxilyzer results indicated the driver was twice over the legal limit. The driver was charged and arrested for DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED w/ PASSENGER u/ 15. He was identified as JOSE LUIS CASTILLO (40) of the 8200 block of Alameda El Paso, TX.
Further investigation revealed CASTILLO had a prior conviction for Driving While Intoxicated. The children ages ages 7 & 12 were released to a relative.
ARRESTED:
JOSE LUIS CASTILLO (40)
DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED w/ PASSENGER u/ 15- $5,000 BOND
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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.