2 Arrested, 1 Dead After High-Speed Chase - KRGV
a honduran man is dead after a high- speed chase and a bailout into a lake in la joya. channel five's kirk chaisson reports, at least one resident of a peaceful neighborhood is now calling for added police protection. jessica reyna has lived on the banks of walker lake in la joya for years. the chase came to a crashing halt here right at the edge and you can see the damage to the vegetation when the truck slammed in. one of the passengers was 19- year-old adan enrique meza-garcia of honduras. troopers say meza could not swim and he drowned in the lake. authorities also arrested 24-year-old jose maxdiel meza- garcia, adan enrique's brother. they also caught the driver of the truck, 39-year-old jose jaime villarreal of mission. the incident comes the day after the one year anniversary of this la joya shootout, just a few hundred yards away. back in her front yard, jessica reyna says she feels less secure in the neighborhood that when she first moved in four years ago. now the driver of the truck, 39-year- old jose jaime villarreal of mission, faces evading, drug and immigrant smuggling charges. kirk chaisson, channel five news at six, la joya. On July 23, at approximately 2:30 p. m. , a DPS trooper attempted to a conduct a traffic stop on a red 1999 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup for a traffic violation in La Joya. Source: www.krgv.com