The charges listed in the indictment included aggravated assault, threat with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault, bodily injury with a deadly weapon.
Bee County Sheriff’s Office investigators alleged that Joseph Milton Marizette threatened a man with a knife, saying he would kill him. Investigators also claimed that the defendant choked the victim with his hands during the incident.
Both charges are first degree felonies and could result in a prison term of as much as 99 years or life and a fine of as much as $10,000 if Marizette is convicted of the offenses.
District Judge Jana Whatley set bond on Marizette at $10,000.
Others indicted last week included:
•Kimberly Galindo in a two-count indictment on charges of injury to a child by omission.
The second count of the indictment was listed first degree felony but the first count, on the same charge, was listed as a second degree felony.
Second degree felonies are punishable by a prison term of up to 20 years and a fine of as much as $10,000, if the defendant is convicted.
The difference in the two counts was that in the first degree charge prosecutors alleged that the omission resulted in serious bodily injury. According to Beeville Police Department investigators, the defendant left a child under the age of 14 on a couch unattended on May 7, 2008, and the child fell onto the floor and was injured.
Bond was $7,500.
•Benito Moreno on a charge of possession of a controlled substance, cocaine, 4-200 grams, a first degree felony.
Deputies alleged that Moreno had the drug in his possession on Feb. 13.
Bond was $2,000.
•Martina Moreno Campos on a charge of possession of a controlled substance, cocaine, 4-200 grams, a first degree felony. Sheriff’s office investigators alleged that the defendant had the drug on Feb. 13.
Bond was $2,000.
•Jesse Hunter Hollon in a two-count indictment on charges of aggravated assault against a public servant with a deadly weapon.
The charges stemmed from an incident on Jan. 9 in which Hollon allegedly tried to run over BPD officers Arturo Hernandez and Art Gamez with a vehicle.
BCSO investigators filed the second degree felony charges against the suspect and said the incident took place as the two officers were answering a disturbance call.
Bond was $2,500.
•Javier Daniel Cano on a charge of burglary with intent to commit assault.
The charge is a second degree felony. Deputies alleged that Cano entered the home of a woman on Dec. 14, 2008, to assault her.
Bond was $2,500.
•Jeffery Wayne Markert on a charge of felony driving while intoxicated. The charge normally is a third degree felony but was enhanced to a second degree felony because Markert had a previous felony conviction.
According to deputies, Markert committed the offense on March 14. He had previous DWI convictions on Feb. 10 and Nov. 9, 1993, both in Nueces County, and on Jan. 22, 1999, and on May 8, 2000, both in Jim Wells County. The enhancement was based on the fact that the defendant had a previous conviction on March 1, 2005, in Bee County on a charge of felony DWI.
Bond was $2,000.
•Remigio H. Puentes on a charge of felony DWI enhanced to a second degree felony. Highway Patrol Trooper Carlos Martinez took Puentes into custody on the charge on Feb. 7. The defendant has two previous DWI convictions, one on July 15, 1992, in Bexar County and another on Feb. 10, 1999, in Bee County.
The February charge was enhanced because Puentes had been convicted on three counts of burglary and one count of felony theft on March 31, 1986, in San Patricio County.
Bond was $2,500.
•Maria Lucia Martinez was named in an indictment on five counts of injury to a child, all third degree felonies.
Beeville police claimed that Martinez struck a child under the age of 14 with her hand and with objects on Aug. 2, 2008, and that the child suffered a broken right arm and first metatarsal and the victim also was struck on the pubic bone.
Third degree charges are punishable by up to ten years in prison and a fine of as much as $10,000 upon conviction.
Bond was $10,000.
•Cruz Favela was indicted on five counts of injury to a child by omission, all third degree felonies. The defendant’s charges were all related to the incident for which Martinez was charged in the previous indictment.
According to prosecutors, Favela failed to prevent Martinez from committing the offenses against the child.
His bond was $5,000.
•Derik Hartsfield was named in a two-count indictment on charges of retaliation and possession of a deadly weapon in a penal institution, both third degree felonies.
Deputies investigating the cases claimed that Hartsfield threatened a Bee County jailer when he was arrested on Dec. 14, 2008, and he was found to have a razor blade in his possession in the jail.
Bond was $5,000.
•Richard Guajardo on a charge of assault against a public servant, a third degree felony.
BPD officers claimed that Guajardo kicked Patrolman Gamez while he was arresting him during a March 8 incident.
Bond was $6,000.
•Shelby Thermon Lewis was named in a two-count indictment on charges of possession of a controlled substance, cocaine, less than one gram and retaliation.
The drug charge is a state jail felony punishable by up to two years in a state jail facility and a fine of as much as $10,000.
The retaliation charge is a third degree felony.
Deputies alleged that Lewis was being booked into the jail on the drug charge when he told a jailer, “I can’t wait to see you in public; we can go one on one when I get out of jail.”
The incident took place on Dec. 13, 2008.
Bond was $10,000.
•Carlos Lopez on a charge of DWI, a third degree felony.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested Lopez on the charge on Jan. 29.
He had previous DWI convictions on Aug. 31, 1992, and on April 9, 1997, both in Harris County.
Bond was $1,500.
•Rene Vela on a charge of DWI, a third degree felony.
Deputies alleged that Vela was caught driving under the influence on March 14 and that he had previous DWI convictions on Sept. 22, 2004, and on Aug. 23, 2006, both in Bee County.
Bond was $2,000.
•Joel James Treviño on a charge of DWI, a third degree felony.
Deputies took the defendant into custody on the charge on March 22, 2009.
He had previous DWI convictions on Nov. 30, 2005, and again on Sept. 27, 2006. Both convictions were in Bee County.
Bond was $2,500.
•Lori Lynn Constante on a charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, a state jail felony.
BPD officers alleged that the defendant took an automobile from a local man without his permission on Feb. 14.
Bail was $1,500.
•Jesse Landreth and Kevin Joe Medina were named in two separate indictments stemming from the same incident on charges of criminal mischief, $1,500-$20,000.
The charge is a state jail felony.
Police claimed that the two men destroyed a vending machine belonging to another man by pushing it over without his consent on Jan. 27.
Bond was 1,500 on Landreth and $2,000 on Medina.
•Gary L. Johnson on a charge of theft by check, $1,500-$20,000, a state jail felony.
Authorities alleged that Johnson cashed four checks between April 15 and June 14, 2008, for which he had insufficient funds.
Bond was $7,500.
•Melissa Rocha Garza on a charge of theft by check, $1,500-$20,000, a state jail felony.
She was accused of having given a check for $3,270.23 to Alamo Concrete on an American Bank account when she did not have the funds in the bank to cover that amount.
Bond was $1,500.
•John Cumpian was named in a six-count indictment including three counts on charges of DWI with a child under the age of 15 in the vehicle and with three counts of endangering a child.
All six offenses are state jail felonies.
Trooper Martinez alleged that Cumpian had three children in his vehicle on Jan. 31 and he was driving while under the influence of alcohol.
The last three counts were based on an accusation that the defendant was driving at an unsafe speed without voluntarily delivering the children to “a designated emergency care provider.”
Bond was $5,000.
•Norma Perez on a charge of DWI with a child under the age of 15 in her vehicle.
Highway Patrol Trooper Santiago “Jimmy” Montez took Perez into custody on Aug. 1, 2008, and claimed that she was driving under the influence of alcohol with a child in the vehicle.
Bond was $3,000.
•Susie J. Guevara on a charge of DWI with a passenger under the age of 15 in the vehicle, a state jail felony.
Trooper Martinez also worked that incident and alleged that the defendant had a child in her vehicle on Oct. 11, 2008, while she was driving intoxicated.
Bond was $1,000.
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