Deputy Capt. Dan Caddell said Sgt. Ronnie Jones and Deputy Andy Poynter found 55-year-old Ernesto Camacho of Houston and 62-year-old Miguel Arevalo of Gregory changing a tire on a red 1992 Ford Taurus when they responded to a call from a burglary victim.
The victim said someone had knocked on the door of a house on Hudson Road between Beeville and Skidmore that evening. The occupant did not answer the knock but noticed that the man who knocked took some property as he left.
When deputies arrived at the scene just before 7 p.m., they found one of the men changing a flat tire on the Taurus and the stolen property described by the victim was in the vehicle.
The men were charged with burglary of a habitation, a first degree felony.
If convicted, they could be sentenced to as many as 99 years or life in prison and fined as much as $10,000.
Caddell said he is not certain if the men could be connected to a rash of recent burglaries in rural Bee County.
However, he asked that if anybody had seen a red 1992 Ford Taurus in the area of any of the burglaries he would like to hear from them.
No bail had been set on the two suspects as of Tuesday.
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