Pedro Arredando's former boss is the brother of Democrat US Congressman Henry Cuellar
>arredando
>United ISD Police Chief Ray Garner said that before Arredondo came to work for him, Arredondo had worked for Webb CountySheriff Martin Cuellarand was the No. 3 person at that office.
>Webb County Sheriff is a democrat.
>Uvalde + MS13
>Dems run MS13, so are they controlling city councils in small towns now?
Border security not on the top of the list
Stewart M. Powell
March 18, 2012
Updated: March 20, 2012 1:35 p.m.
Critics say the focus of the program in Texas has gradually shifted away from border security as the Texas Department of Public Safety - which helps decide what goes where - weighs more and more competing applications for equipment submitted by cash-strapped law enforcement agencies across the Lone Star State.
"When you look at what was given out last year, you see only a few agencies along the border that got one or two pieces of equipment, while a few police forces elsewhere got pages and pages of equipment,"said Congressman Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from Laredo."If people are going to talk border security, let's put the resources into border security."
For example, the Round Rock police, 253 miles north of the border crossing at Laredo, received 4,526 pieces of surplus gear. The Wichita County Sheriff's Department came in second with 2,212 pieces of equipment and police in Rising Star, 371 miles north of Laredo, counted 815.
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"We need this equipment at the border," insists Republican Congressman Ted Poe of Humble, who crafted legislation to force just such a preference. "We don't need Humvees and Predators and night vision goggles in Dallas or Austin or Houston."
Even the well-connected Webb County Sheriff's office, led by Martin Cuellar, the congressman's brother, has only managed to obtain three major pieces of surplus military equipment since 2010 to bolster efforts across the border area. The equipment includes an all-terrain Humvee, an eight-ton armored personnel carrier and an observation helicopter to help track drug traffickers and spot victims in natural disasters. The helicopter is one of 82 surplus military aircraft turned over to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies over the past 30 months.
"These were big items that would be hard to get with our budget constraints," says Pete Arredondo, the assistant chief in the Webb County Sheriff's Office.