13 ARRESTED DURING “OPERATION DEAD BEAT”
3850 Justice Dr. El Paso, Texas 79938 
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Contact: Deputy Jesse Tovar / PUBLIC AFFAIRS
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Release Date / Time: MONDAY, August 17, 2009 11:00 AM
SECTION: El Paso County Sheriff's Office – STRIKE TEAM
EVENT: “OPERATION DEAD BEAT” NETS 13 ARRESTS
LOCATION OF OCCURRENCE: EL PASO COUNTY, TX
DATE / TIME: Week of August 12-15 , 2009
RESULT: SEVERAL ARRESTED
EL PASO COUNTY, TX– During the week of August 12 to August 15 2009, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Strike Team conducted “OPERATION DEAD BEAT”. The operation was intended to identify and locate subjects who had outstanding warrants for Criminal Non-Support (Child Support back pay). As a result of the operation Strike Team Deputies located a total of 11 people that had outstanding warrants for various amounts of unpaid child support. During the operation Deputies also located two other subjects that had active unrelated felony criminal warrants. One of the additional subjects located was wanted for assaulting a school district security officer and the other for a Driving While intoxicated 3rd or more charge.
ARRESTED :
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Roy Provencio(43)
CRIMINAL NON-SUPPORT:
NO BOND | Raul Vasquez (37)
CRIMINAL NON-SUPPORT:
NO BOND
| George Zuniga (34)
CRIMINAL NON-SUPPORT:
$8,000.00 | Jose Morales (31)
CRIMINAL NON-SUPPORT:
NO BOND |
Moses Diaz (32)
CRIMINAL NON-SUPPORT:
$2,000.00 | Luis Albert Gutierrez (33)
CRIMINAL NON-SUPPORT:
NO BOND | Alfredo Ronquillo (42)
CRIMINAL NON-SUPPORT:
$7,900.00 | Ramon Mendoza (31)
CRIMINAL NON-SUPPORT:
$1,400.00 |
Jose Macias (45)
CRIMINAL NON-SUPPORT:
$1,000.00 | Rafael Rodriguez (52)
CRIMINAL NON-SUPPORT:
$14,000.00 | Ted Williamson (56)
CRIMINAL NON-SUPPORT:
$24,750.00 | Jose Franco (18)
ASSAULT ON SECURITY OFFICER-
$100, 000.00 |
| Albert Mendez (37) 
PROBATION VIOLATION / DWI 3rd OR MORE:
NO BOND |
(NOTE: ALL INDIVIDUALS ARRESTED / SHOWN ABOVE ARE PRESUMED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW)
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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.