The investigator said Sgt. Ronnie Jones was patrolling in the 300 block of East Crockett Street on the afternoon of Nov. 5 when spotted a 1995 Ford failing to stop properly at a stop sign.
Jones followed the vehicle and made a traffic stop at a trailer park in the 500 block of South Adams Street.
Three women got out of the vehicle and tried to enter a mobile home before Jones managed to stop them.
One of the women, identified as 19-year-old Vanessa Silva, told the deputy that she had to use the bathroom and she acted nervously as Jones and Deputy Commander Karl Brune separated the three.
Deputies then learned that one of the women had an outstanding warrant for her arrest, issued by the Beeville Police Department.
During questioning, the deputies began to suspect that Silva was trying to hide something but she denied it.
Deputies searched the vehicle but found nothing. However, deputies found that Silva had about seven grams of a white powdery substance, believed to be cocaine, in her possession.
The suspect later was booked into the Bee County Jail on a charge of manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance, cocaine, 4-200 grams in a drug-free zone.
The offense is a first-degree felony punishable by a prison term of from five to 99 years or life in prison and a fine of as much as $10,000.
Deputies serving a warrant in the 600 block of North Adams Street took two people into custody just before midnight on Nov. 7.
Hinds said Special Weapons and Tactics deputies led by Sgt. Ronnie Jones found cocaine and body armor when they entered the home.
John Lee Rivas, 25, and Valerie Vasquez, 23, were found at home and taken into custody.
Rivas was charged with possession of a controlled substance, cocaine, 1-4 grams in a drug-free zone. The offense is a second degree felony punishable by a prison term of from two to 20 years and a fine of as much as $10,000.
Vasquez was arrested on the same offense and deputies also charged her with being a felon in possession of body armor, a third degree felony punishable by a prison term of from two to ten years and a fine of as much as $10,000.
Hinds said Vasquez also was on a five-year probated sentence at the time of her arrest.
SWAT officers taking part in the raid included Deputies J.D. Aguirre, Robert Meakins, Simon Moya and Jason Alvarez. Texas Department of Public Safety Special Crimes Investigator Sgt. Drew Pinkerton also took part in the raid.
In another routine traffic stop made at the intersection of South Madison and Cato streets, Meakins and Alvarez found a sizable amount of cocaine when they searched a vehicle occupied by two local people.
Those charged included Manuel Campos, 38, and Eva Campos, 29.
Both suspects had bags containing an estimated three grams of cocaine, which had a street value of almost $5,000.
Hinds said Meakins’ dog alerted to the vehicle when he checked it out during the stop and deputies then found the hidden narcotics.
“To hit a load on the streets like that was fantastic,” Hinds said. The arrest took a good amount of cocaine off Beeville’s streets.
“Basically what deputies have done is wreak havoc on local dope dealers two weekends in a row now.”
Hinds said a just a couple of nights later in another traffic stop, Eva Hernandez was arrested again.
She and a 29-year-old woman, Emily Hernandez, were stopped by Meakins and Garcia at the intersection of South Washington and South St. Mary’s streets and deputies took the two into custody after finding a prohibited weapon, a butterfly knife, in the vehicle.
Hinds said a female deputy later discovered that Hernandez had hidden five quarter-ounce bags of crack cocaine in a body cavity when she was searched at the Bee County Jail.
The deputy said the two women had five children in the vehicle with them at the time of the arrest and each of them was under the age of 14.
Hernandez was charged with possession of a controlled substance, cocaine, 4-200 grams. The offense is a second degree felony.
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