Anonymous ID: bfc106 Oct. 6, 2018, 4 p.m. No.3371593   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1607

Roma woman arrested on voter fraud charges

 

A Roma woman was arrested Thursday evening on multiple voter fraud charges relating to the November 2018 general election, confirmed 229th District Attorney Omar Escobar.

 

Modesta Vela, 60, was arrested by investigators with the 229th District Attorney’s Office on felony charges of illegal voting, knowingly possessing a ballot or ballot envelope of another person with the intent to defraud, and election fraud, in addition to a misdemeanor unlawful assistance of a voter charge.

 

Starr County Court-at-Law Judge Romero Molina set her bond for all four charges at $145,000, according to Maj. Carlos Delgado, spokesman for the Starr County Sheriff’s Office, who noted Vela was released from jail on bond Thursday evening.

 

The DA’s office began investigating Vela approximately eight days ago, Escobar said, after an individual notified the Starr County Elections Department of allegations that Vela approached an elderly voter in Roma and took the voter’s absentee ballot for the upcoming election, filled it out herself and mailed it.

 

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