Trevino responds to sheriff

By TONY VINDELL
Special to the NEWS

Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino Jr. is responding to County Sheriff Eric Garza’s claims that his department has been cut from funding because of politics.

“We have the responsibility to respond to the sheriff comments about reducing his office resources,” Trevino said during a press conference held Tuesday, Sept. 27. “The county must live within its means. These are unfair, inaccurate and inflammatory actions made by the sheriff.”

Trevino said the county can’t create money out of the blue but pointed out that a number of positions eliminated at the sheriff’s department are directly correlated to the department’s loss of revenues from not housing federal and Hidalgo County inmates.

That amounts to more than $2.6 million, he said.

Trevino said the federal inmates count went from 151 in October 2019 to zero as of Sept. 1 of this year.
“Why the sheriff unilaterally made the decision of, ‘I don’t want federal inmates’ -nobody knows.” he said. “The sheriff has placed items on the agenda but he has not appeared before the court to address his concerns.”

Garza said in a prepared statement the county judge and the commissioners are defunding his department as retaliation because the courts ruled in his favor to provide security to the county’s courthouse.

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