MAN PREVIOUSLY ARRESTED ON THEFT & FORGERY CHARGES STRIKES AGAIN / MHM FUGITIVE CAUGHT IN DALLAS, TX
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
Release Date / Time: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 3:15 PM
SECTION: El Paso County Sheriff's Office (CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DIVISION - CID)
EVENT: MAN PREVIOUSLY ARRESTED ON THEFT & FORGERY CHARGES STRIKES AGAIN / MHM FUGITIVE CAUGHT IN DALLAS , TX
LOCATION OF OCCURRENCE: EL PASO, TX / DALLAS, TEXAS
DATE / TIME: October 6, 2009 NOON TIME
RESULT: ARRESTS MADE
EL PASO COUNTY, TX- Earlier today 10-07-09 at about 12:00 PM, an individual by the name of OSCAR REZA, who was recently featured on Manhunt Monday on August 3, 2009 & arrested on Sunday, August 23,2009 for several THEFT charges as well as FORGERY charges, has once again been arrested for one aggregate charge of THEFT and 6 counts of FORGERY. REZA was involved in passing several bad checks made out to local businesses for construction material he claimed was being used for construction at Fort Bliss. Detectives from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office White Collar Crime Section tracked REZA’s criminal activity to Las Cruces, New Mexico where REZA was passing bad checks to purchase construction material. REZA claimed he was using the material for construction at White Sands Missile Range. Detectives contacted the Las Cruces Police Department where several similar charges are pending against REZA for THEFT in the amount of $50,000.00. REZA was arrested today 10/07 at about noon at the El Paso County Courthouse, County Criminal Court One, without incident with bond set $40,000.00.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW MANHUNT MONDAY FEATURE ON OSCAR REZA 08/03
CLICK HERE TO VIEW OSCAR REZA’S CAPTURE 08/23
DALLAS, TX- At about the same time, this past Monday’s Manhunt Monday Fugitive DONTAY LAMONT BARNETT was arrested in Dallas, TX. The details on how BARNETT was apprehended is unavailable at this time- we will update & provide information once it becomes available. BARNETT was wanted on a PROBATION REVOCATION stemming from a SEXUAL ASSAULT ON A CHILD charge from back in April 2005. BARNETT now sits in a Dallas jail awaiting extradition to El Paso, TX. More details are forthcoming.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW MANHUNT MONDAY FEATURE ON DONTAY BARNETT 10/05
ARRESTED:
OSCAR REZA (42)  CHARGES:
THEFT OF PROPERTY- $10,000 BOND
6 COUNTS FORGERY- $30,000 TOTAL BOND
| DONTAY BARNETT (29)
CHARGES: SEXUAL ASSAULT OF A CHILD (PROBATION REVOCATION) – **NO BOND** AWAITING EXTRADITION BACK TO EL PASO, TX |
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.