Licensed Texas Attorney and Federally Appointed Immigration Magistrate Timothy Japhet Arrested on Suspicion of Human Smuggling and Resisting Arrest
A Texas-licensed attorney who was also assigned as an immigration magistrate by the federal government, was recently arrested in Kinney County, Texas, on charges of smuggling a human and resisting arrest, according to Officer Constable Jimmy Fullen.
“Timothy Japhet is a lawyer from Texas who has 19 years of experience practicing family law, real estate law, business law, environmental law, divorce, employment law, and consumer law,” Mixed Article reported.
“Timothy attended South Texas College of Law in 1998 and graduated with a law degree in 2003. He became a Doctor of Jurisprudence in 2003. The Texas attorney has been associated with Texas State Bar since 2003 and is still a member,” the outlet added.
On his Facebook page, Timothy Japhet posted a statement denying the accusations. Read his statement below:
Last Saturday my dog and I left Corpus early in the am to hit the casino in Eagle Pass and then a client meet at the Casino for breakfast and another client meeting in Del Rio at 2:00 and finally SA by 5 home by 9 pm hopefully rich from the big casino win.
At 1:30 pm or so I was late and stopped off a paved road outside Quemado with nice little houses and let the dog go to the bathroom when green shirt guy walked up and asked for a ride to DR to which I agreed and he and then three, not one, but three guys piled in the back. At this point I lost choice in the matter I believe but I turned back into EP to get gas and the guy said I was going the wrong way to go to DR so I busted a U right in front of the Harley shop on a Saturday afternoon in front of a DPS trooper.
I was gonna need gas by Junction for sure and then we passed about 4 CLEO vehicles of different departments and I waived at a DPS trooper and still no attention….about 90 seconds later they came flying up the road so I pulled over into the grass because there is no shoulder and I’m getting my license out. and this female DPS officer and female sheriffs officer come screaming up each side of my vehicle guns out and yanking me out of the car accusing me of smuggling and yanking the guys sitting them over where you see in the pictures while tearing through the trunk and elsewhere. This is where I made mistake.
I said the douchebag lawyer protest we all hate: “I’m a lawyer and a smuggling charge is ridiculous because they never offered nor did I ask or get money and I stopped for you before you even caught up AND they are in plain site like any normal person would be AND my window was rolled down” that deputy stuck the entirely too big for her hands gun in my face and asked if I was resisting arrest to which I said “nope” and followed all further instructions with aggressive compliance.
Neither one of them needed there firearms we were all so shook up from the yelling but the BP guy rolled up and he was extraordinarily well mannered and I told him what happened. He went through my phone which I completely consented to and looked for some very specific applications, my google travel log I think and my texts and calls which I probably shouldn’t have allowed to potential attorney client information exposure but at the time he said I checked out and told me he wasn’t charging me with anything but the State was a different matter.
He asked a little about how I knew the roads and my practice areas but I have so many citations and warnings all over that area on my record he could see I was a frequent flyer and so he walked off and I figured I was about to get on the road until the tow truck pulled up.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/licensed-texas-attorney-federally-appointed-immigration-magistrate-timothy-japhet-arrested-suspicion-human-smuggling-resisting-arrest