Mission cop accused of stealing cocaine and faking drug bust - Monitor
The suspected drug seizure occurred months after Mendez lost the Democratic primary for Hidalgo County Precinct 2 constable in April 2012. That July, he stole the bundles from a Mission home, only to later say he seized a 1998 Ford Taurus from the... He later told police he had delivered the cocaine to a house in Mission and never used the Taurus, where Mendez had said the drugs were discovered. Gonzalez told police the cocaine he’d delivered was in different packages and had been seized from a Mission home several days earlier, after officers received a tip from an informant, the complaint states. Reynol Chapa-Garcia, 36, told agents that Gonzalez was being truthful and admitted to working with Mendez, a criminal complaint states. He confessed that Mendez showed up to his residence and took all the cocaine, saying he had arranged to dilute the cocaine so the narcotic could be stolen and re-distributed for a profit, the complaint states. Chapa told agents Mendez also arranged the staged seizure on July 29, 2012, to hide how he’d stolen the drugs from the residence, the complaint states. Source: www.themonitor.com
