BOBBY BLASTS CASTRO 1
BOOBY WITLESS-CERVEZAS: "Erasmo Castro's response is the court removed the felony part from his conviction. The case law from the Court of Criminal Appeals is clear: The removal of the word felony is a legal nullity and void. In that case, the Court of Criminal Appeals reinstated the defendant's felony conviction."
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Booby Witless-Cervezas, the publisher of El Brownsville Void, is arguing that Erasmo Castro can talk himself blue in the face as he plays the role of Fox's Sean Hannity on Brownsville Talk, but the fact still remains: Castro is a felon. Witless-Cervezas doesn't hide his sentiments. Castro epitomizes everything that is negative about Brownsville. Castro has a long and checkered history that would be an embarrassment to most individuals, let alone politicians. But not this disgraced politico who had to resign from the BISD school board because of his unbecoming conduct.Like Trump, he resides in a disconnected reality. Witless-Cervezas' warnings about Castro are substantiated by award-winning blogger Juan Montoya. El Rrun Rrun's publisher returns to prehistoric times when Castro's black root first broke the surface: "Castro first came to the attention of the Brownsville Police Department and the Cameron County District Attorney's Office through his active participation in a fraudulent scheme to dispossess a Brownsville woman (Petra Aurora Floyd Mancillas) of a white 1984 BMW that her husband Alejandro Mancillas bought for her with $1,900 of her income-tax refund money in February 1992. According to her statement to police, after she was using the car for about three weeks, she and her husband got into an argument and he threatened to kill her if he left her. She then left for California after he placed a gun between her legs and threatened to shoot her. While in California, she learned that her husband had 'sold' her car to Castro for an unspecified amount and that Castro had done a transfer on the title to his name. She told them the car belonged to her and that she wanted it back. As a result of her complaint, police seized the car and when she arrived in Brownsville she found out that the car had been placed in the Cardenas Motors impoundment yard. From there, statements by impoundment yard employees and police officers indicate that Castro attempted to get the car released but that he lacked a release form from the police department. After he got the money required by the yard, Castro returned with a form signed by an officer Daniel Y. Bennett authorizing him to get the BMW. Later, detective Mariano Gonzales determined that Castro had forged Bennett's signature. During a hearing called by then Municipal Judge Kip Van Hodge to determine ownership of the vehicle at which Castro did not appear, the car's ownership was returned to the woman. As a result of these criminal offenses (passing a forged instrument), Castro was charged with forgery and his trial was held in 138th District Court before Judge Robert Garza. After a bench jury, Garza found him guilty of felony forgery and sentenced him to 10 years in the penitentiary reduced to five years probation. Castro was sentenced to pay a fine and to report to probation. He asked that his probation be removed to Titus County (Mt. Pleasant) and two years later asked that the court reconsider his sentence to deferred adjudication. The state objected to the reconsideration and a hearing was held on May 13, 1994. During that hearing, Castro introduced a letter from his employer John DiFrancesco Jr., of Pleasant View, a facility that cared for handicapped children. In the letter, DiFrancesco pleaded with Garza to defer the sentence or else he could not employ Castro with a felony conviction. 'If necessary, I would appear before your court or even bring a group of mentally retarded clients with me,' DiFrancesco wrote. Castro, on his own behalf, also pleaded with Garza to grant him the deferment stating his work in Brownsville with Lincoln Park School (with Linda Gill Martinez) as a coach with Special Olympics in Brownsville and his desire to make 'great things happen for my children' in Mount Pleasant. He also told Garza he had 'become active in my church and oversaw a youth group' there. Garza granted the deferment. His reappearance in Brownsville in his family's notary public office has also raised grave concerns from attorneys representing immigrants and their families who were advised to seek help from notaries to fill out their applications with the U.S. Immigration Department (ICE) for residence and eventual citizenship. Two complaints naming the Castros (including Erasmo) were filed in the U.S. Southern District Court accusing them of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise (RICO) for continuing to fill out the forms without certification. According to the lawsuits, as a result of the inappropriate filling out of some forms, some petitioners lost their opportunity to get residency and even citizenship when their forms were rejected for a number of reasons, including filling out the wrong forms or missing deadlines." Montoya's reporting in this article is only the tip of the iceberg concerning Castro. In order to tell all of Castro's sordid story, he would require a book that could compete with a Totstoy tome. But the message that both Witless-Cervezas and Montoya, who never agree on anything, is categorical: Voting for Castro is arguably a bigger mistake than voting for Trump.)
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