A former Houston police captain was charged Tuesday with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly ran a man off the road and pointed a gun at him.
According to a report by The Associated Press, former officer Mark Aguirre was said to be convinced a local repairman was behind an imaginary scheme of mass electoral fraud.
Aguirre allegedly slammed his vehicle into the unnamed man’s truck, forcing him off the road, before holding him at gunpoint until police showed up and took Aguirre into custody.
He reportedly told investigators that he believed the man was behind a massive ballot collection scheme and that they would find thousands of illegal ballots in the man’s truck; a search of the vehicle revealed only tools and various repair equipment.
A Texas Attorney General’s lieutenant added that the incident occurred after Aguirre demanded that state police intervene and stop the man’s truck, which they refused to do.
“The defendant testified (the driver) that he has approximately seven hundred and fifty thousand fraudulent e-mail tickets and that he uses Hispanic children to sign the ballots because the children’s fingerprints would not appear in any database,” the affidavit says. of arrest of Aguirre, according to the AP.
Aguirre, who has received more than a quarter of a million dollars from a local right-wing group led by activist Steven Hotze, has pleaded not guilty through a lawyer.
The lawyer argued that his client was conducting a lawful investigation, although Aguirre is not a member of law enforcement and has no authority to conduct investigative processes.
“I think it’s political prosecution. I really do,” Aguirre’s attorney, Terry Yates, told a local media outlet, according to the AP. “He was working and investigating election fraud, and there was an accident. A member of the car came out and rushed towards him and that was where the confrontation took place. It’s very different from what you quote in the affidavit “.
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