Comal County Sheriff Mark Reynolds on Tuesday confirmed five offenders tested positive for COVID-19 this week but disputed claims posted on social media on the severity of the first coronavirus cases at the new county jail.
âDuring the normal (screening) checks five people tested positive â the first cases weâve had at the jail,â Reynolds said. âThey have been isolated in negative-pressure cells and quarantined away from the others. Itâs not a rampant outbreak, despite what others might be saying.â
Comal has agreements with Bell, Hays and Coryell counties to house offenders at $65 per inmate per day, inside the local 582-bed lockup and has yet to board offenders held by San Antonioâs U.S. Marshalâs Service at $100 per offender per day.Â
If it took a village to aid the mentally impaired through the challenges of the civil and criminal court systems, Donna Eccleston was its mayor.
Comal Countyâs Precinct 1 commissioner was among many inside a packed courthouse who saw their efforts realized with the formal creation of the countyâs first Mental Health Court.
âIt was her patience â sometimes lacking but definitely her patience, her persistence and her passion to get this up and going, as well as everything beyond just this mental health court,â Criminal District Attorney Jennifer Tharp said to Eccleston during Thursdayâs commissioners court meeting. âWe really appreciate everything you did to make today a reality.â
A camp counselor who reported a possible attempted kidnapping at Fischer Park a few weeks ago was fired after police said the individual fabricated the story.
After a camp counselor claimed a man and woman had tried to kidnap two children from a summer camp at Fischer Park earlier this month, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NewBraunfelsPoliceDepartment/posts/4184618744928453" target=" blank">New Braunfels police said</a> no such event happened.