2, 835 GALLONS OF FUEL SEIZED DURING GAS THEFT RING BUST AWARDED TO THE EL PASO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
3850 Justice El Paso, TX 79938 
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Contact: Deputy Jesse Tovar / PUBLIC AFFAIRS
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Release Date / Time: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:50 AM
SECTION: El Paso County Sheriff's Office
EVENT: 2, 835 gallons of gasoline seized during GAS RING BUST awarded to EPCSO
LOCATION OF OCCURRENCE: Justice of the Peace #4- El Paso County, TX
DATE / TIME: Thursday, October 22, 2009
RESULT: Gasoline Awarded
El Paso, Texas- Late last week on Thursday, October 22, 2009- Judge Rosalio Munoz of Justice of the Peace no. 4 awarded 2,835 gallons of fuel to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. The fuel was seized during “Operation Filler Up” which took place on September 23, 2009. The awarded fuel will allow the Sheriff’s Office to use the recovered fuel for County Owned Vehicles; therefore saving the Tax Payers of El Paso County a total of $7,172.55 on fuel purchases when compared to the current $2.53 average cost of gas in El Paso County, TX .
Click here to view “OPERATION FILLER UP”
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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.