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Lawsuit: Cop lets DWI suspect go after asking for her number
Valley Centra ^ | April 4th ,2014 | Brett Crandall

Posted on 04/04/2014 7:18:25 PM PDT by moonshinner_09

The McAllen Police Department is facing a big lawsuit, after a sergeant allegedly failed to prevent a drunk driver from getting behind the wheel.

Bars and clubs are sometimes sued after serving drinks to a customer involved in drunk driving accidents, but a case filed in March points to a McAllen police sergeant for failing to prevent a drunk driver from taking the life of an Edinburg man.

Two years ago, Jose Mata was taken from his wife and son, when police say Zulai Zamora rammed the back of his motorcycle at the intersection of Jackson Rd. and University Drive in Edinburg.

Court documents reveal Zamora left the Yacht Club in McAllen about one hour before the crash and had drank three drinks with whiskey and a Jell-O shot.

Zamora was reportedly pulled over shortly after leaving the Yacht Club by McAllen Police Sgt. Javier Coronado, but after a few minutes he sent on her back on her way home.

"He wasn't issued anything, wasn't taken in, Sgt Coronado told her to continue," said Lino Ochoa who is representing Mata’s family.

Zamora testifies she then pulled into the Stripes on Nolana and McColl to get something to eat and that Coronado followed her and directed her to go across the street.

"She went because she was in fear of being arrested because she had just been drinking at the bar," Ochoa said.

According to the petition, after Zamora left Stripes, the video surveillance on a bank ATM captured Zamora and Coronado parked in a chuch parking lot for about 15 minutes only 4-5 feet away from each other.

The petition states, he asked for her number while she asked for a ride home.

(Excerpt) Read more at valleycentral.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: confrontationwatch; donutwatch; drunkdriver; feos; mcallentxpolice; texas
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1 posted on 04/04/2014 7:18:25 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09

Police are above the law.


2 posted on 04/04/2014 7:27:51 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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Must have been a smokin’ hot babe to be talked out of not putting her in handcuffs.

I need photos to determine guilt.


3 posted on 04/04/2014 7:30:42 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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She’s guilty.

http://www.valleycentral.com/uploadedImages/kgbt/News/Stories/P%20EDINBURG%20FATAL%206.jpg?w=440&h=330&aspect=nostretch


4 posted on 04/04/2014 7:42:47 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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To: goldstategop

guilty


5 posted on 04/04/2014 7:45:15 PM PDT by South Dakota (shut up and build a bakken pipe line)
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To: ansel12

Guilty


6 posted on 04/04/2014 8:15:13 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: moonshinner_09

First of all, I’m sure she was drunker an hour later after the alcohol moved throughout her system. However, I don’t think she only had 3 drinks.

My how times have changed. When I was younger and we got stopped by the police we always said we’d only had “2” beers.


7 posted on 04/04/2014 8:26:29 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: ansel12

It was “Jose” hitting on “Zulia”. To him she was smokin’!


8 posted on 04/04/2014 8:27:37 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: moonshinner_09
but after a few minutes he sent on her back on her way home.

No wonder!

9 posted on 04/04/2014 8:30:34 PM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: moonshinner_09

I'm sure there is one for asking out a gal!

So that’s what they mean! SWAT hand signals as explained by a working Japanese mother
10 posted on 04/04/2014 8:30:52 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: moonshinner_09

BAD COP!

No donut!


11 posted on 04/04/2014 8:41:56 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: moonshinner_09

In the 70’s, I was stopped by a Chicago cop after I arrived at work. Turns out he had followed me for around 20 miles until I parked by my workplace. He told me I was cute and could we go out sometime. I was a bit creeped out and said no. I just thought it was kinda funny at the time.....never occurred to me to be upset about it. But I guess that was just the 70’s.


12 posted on 04/04/2014 8:48:00 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: ansel12

She looks like an old photo of Charro, but right after she got her hair washed. Chucci-Chucci!


13 posted on 04/04/2014 8:48:33 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: VerySadAmerican
My how times have changed. When I was younger and we got stopped by the police we always said we’d only had “2” beers.

As a teen in Houston, I went through a time where I carried a Johnny Cash 8 track and a pint of whiskey on the seat next to me.

I could replace Hendrix with Cash, (hiding Hendrix under the seat), and take a big swig of Whiskey to mask my breath, and it would also explain any bad driving I was doing, and hopefully take the attention from my long hair.

Not THAT, is a "different time".

14 posted on 04/04/2014 8:58:18 PM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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15 posted on 04/05/2014 3:39:35 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: ansel12

Yepper! GUILTY!


16 posted on 04/05/2014 5:18:04 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: moonshinner_09
Sgt. Javier Coronado, 46, of Weslaco — a veteran lawman who joined the McAllen Police Department nearly 20 years ago and earns about $68,000 annually

And the pillage of the public treasury goes on, and on, and on...

17 posted on 04/05/2014 6:53:13 AM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: kiryandil

You consider $68,000.00 a year big money?

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18 posted on 04/05/2014 6:55:53 AM PDT by Mears
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To: Mears
You consider $68,000.00 a year big money?

Not bad for a public sector job, which years ago was considered to be "one step above welfare", wouldn't you agree?

And yes, I could live pretty comfortably on $68,000 a year. Of course, I didn't buy into the Merkun Dream of pulled-forward demand and Keeping Up With The Liar's Poker-Playing Joneses.

Did you?

19 posted on 04/05/2014 8:18:35 AM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: rawhide

Final verdict pending full body pic, but preliminary approval for a Clinton post-POTUS pardon.


20 posted on 04/05/2014 8:23:09 AM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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