One of Comal County s Top 10 Most Wanted arrested after evading officers this week, authorities say ksat.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ksat.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Two weeks after confirming the first cases of COVID-19 at the Comal County Jail â which have now more than doubled and include corrections staffers â officials said they expect to begin vaccinating offenders opting for inoculations.
âWe are coordinating with the health department to begin offering vaccines on a voluntary basis this week, but I do not have an exact date when they will begin,â Jail Administrator Bill Jennings said on Monday.
On July 2, Sheriff Mark Reynolds confirmed five offenders had tested positive for COVID-19 but that none of them had bloomed into the illness, with exposures limited to inmates in two of the housing pods inside the jail.
New Braunfels police arrested two Austin men suspected of setting off fireworks outside of a city park on July 4, with one biting an officer trying to detain the pair, police said.
David Ferguson, city communications coordinator, said officers were called to the Prince Solms Park parking lot in the 100 block of Liebscher Drive around 10:50 p.m. on Sunday.
âAn officer observed people in the parking lot shooting off small fireworks,â he said. They made contact with the individuals, three males outside of a black pickup truck Ford F-150 and there were fireworks in plain view in the bed of the truck. Two of the males refused to identify themselves to officers and were being belligerent.â
No further details were available Tuesday on Fridayâs drowning on the Comal River that claimed the life of a 62-year-old New Mexico man.
Police said Albert L. Aranda, 62, from Farmington, New Mexico did not immediately resurface after going through the city Tube Chute. He was pulled from the water but efforts to revive him at the scene and at a New Braunfels hospital were unsuccessful.
David Ferguson, city communications coordinator, said New Braunfels police and fire units arrived on the scene around 3:15 p.m. Friday.
âOfficers arrived to find that lifeguards and citizens had pulled the man from the water and lifeguards performed CPR on the man until paramedics arrived on the scene,â he said. âThe man was then transported to Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in New Braunfels where he was later pronounced deceased.â