Volume 2 , Issue 1 The Lawman Journal Webb County Sheriff’s Office Undergoing Colossal Upgrades! A Letter from the technology and inter- Sheriff agency cooperation, work- ing with ICE, ATF, the Dear Webb County Laredo Police Department, the Texas Department of Families, Public Safety and the FBI. After successfully complet- Sheriff Cuellar And this year, we plan to do ing our first year in office I Recognizes Commu- even more to ensure the am pleased to tell you that nity Role Models safety and security of all the Webb County Sheriff’s In a new partnership Webb County families. Re- Office has made real pro- with Pro 8 News and member that we have an gress in adding personnel, the Salinas Trust, the open door policy. If our passing the jail inspection, Webb County Sheriff’s Office can ever be of any making upgrades to both Office began the assistance to you or your the interior and exterior of “Community Role family, please do not hesi- the Administration Building Model” program to rec- tate to contact us. and County Jail, instituting ognize outstanding high Civil Service, increasing Sincerely, school leaders who are warrant service and signifi- leading by example and cantly increasing seizures of doing the right thing. both drugs and drug money. Not only does the pro- In addition, we have started gram recognize several new programs to reward role models each and recognize young com- month, but one student munity leaders who are set- is awarded a $500 ting a good example for scholarship to help their peers and provide them pursue a career in them with scholarships to law or law enforcement pursue careers in law en- in college. forcement. We increased ( List of students on page 4) 1 WCSO Online: www.webbcountytx.gov/sheriff Law Man Journal Page 2 New Patrol Units Hit Webb County With federal forfeiture license plate readers to We will continue to re- funds seized from help increase the effec- invest those seized criminals and drug tiveness of our depu- funds in the Sheriff’s dealers, the Webb ties. With these new Office to provide County Sheriff’s Office units we were also able greater safety and secu- purchased new patrol to implement the Webb rity for Webb County units. These new units County Highway Patrol families. were badly needed to to help keep our roads update and upgrade our safe from dangerous fleet to improve reli- drivers and drunk driv- ability and effectiveness ers. Patrol Commander in patrolling our com- Julio Gonzalez and our munities and respond- patrol division have ing to emergencies. done a tremendous job The new fleet includes of increasing drug and two units equipped cash seizures in the first with state-of-the-art few months of the year. Extreme Makeover: County Jail Edition After being the first, pairs, our jail is in bet- low for the patrolling first-term Sheriff to ter shape than it has and monitoring of the successfully pass a jail been in years. In the entire Webb County inspection in over 25 coming months we will complex of buildings. years, Jail Commander complete the addition Pepe Salinas has spear- of a new security cam- headed an ambitious era monitoring net- effort to perform an work, and add a secu- extreme makeover of rity perimeter fence to the interior and exte- improve public safety rior of the Webb and increase the secu- County Jail. From rity of the facility and power washing the ex- the surrounding area. terior, to painting the interior, to adding a In addition, we added public information digi- special law enforce- tal billboard and mak- ment Segway personal ing badly-needed re- transports to better al- 2 WCSO Online: www.webbcountytx.gov/sheriff Volume 2 , Issue 1 Page 3 Webb County Sheriff Adds Bomb-Sniffing K-9 Unit Sheriff Martin Cuellar bomb threats at county the highly trained K-9. introduced his office’s buildings. We are very Sheriff Cuellar continued, newest hire—“Aaron”. happy to have Deputy “This was a badly-needed The Belgian Malanoa is Aaron on duty.” Aaron’s upgrade to our office. It trained specifically to de- handler is Luis Agredano. will allow us to better pro- tect bombs and explo- Deputy Agredano and tect Webb County families sives. “The safety of our Aaron recently returned and enhance our response county buildings is obvi- from one month of train- to emergencies. This unit ously very important,” ing in Bandera, Texas will be on standby to re- stated Sheriff Cuellar. “In where they honed Aaron’s spond to our local schools the past few months we skills and trained Deputy so that the parents know have received multiple Agredano to work with their kids are safe.” New Radio Tower Will Improve Communication With assistance from the contact and be forced to With new technology Commissioner’s Court use personal cell phones granted to Webb County and land donated by to remain in contact. by the State Homeland Commissioner Also, our deputies had a Security Department, our Frank Sciarraffa, we limited ability to contact Office has important new broke ground on a new other law enforcement communications capabili- radio communications branches such as DPS. ties that will better pro- tower in Southern Webb With this new tower in tect our deputies and the County. When we took place, we can communi- taxpayers. office, many deputies pa- cate better and more ef- trolling or responding to fectively interact with emergencies in Webb other agencies while re- County would lose radio sponding to your needs. Drugs, Cash and Weapons Seizures Continue to Rise During 2009 and the first law enforcement. Our the violence experienced few months of 2010, goal is to stop the drugs during 2006 through Crime Stoppers and the before they can reach our 2007, has been decreasing Patrol Division have dra- children and make drug in 2008-2010. For the matically increased the dealing less profitable by remainder of 2010, our seizure of drugs, drug seizing the proceeds of deputies will build on this money and weapons. The criminal activity. We are success and work even importance of this im- working diligently to pro- harder to make sure that proved productivity is tect the citizens of Webb crime in Webb County clear—fewer drugs on the County from spill over doesn’t pay. street and more money to violence from Mexico. re-invest in Webb County Comparatively speaking, 3 WCSO Online: www.webbcountytx.gov/sheriff Webb County Sheriff’s Office Sheriff Martin Cuellar Congratulates Community Role Model Recipients January 2010 April 2010 John B Alexander School Cesar Orlando Serna LBJ High School Hilda Vianey Palomo Cigarroa High School Cindy Rodriguez J.W. Nixon High School Steven J. Garcia LBJ High School Carlos D. Ramirez United High School Ariana Liendo J.W. Nixon High School Kimberly Castillo United South High School William Camarillo Martin High School Tracy Rodriguez St. Augustine High School Aissa Calzado Cigarroa High School Karen Zavala United High School Patricia Renee Garza John B Alexander School Mauricio Dimas United South High School Adriana Resendez Martin High School Valeria Escobar St. Augustine High School Reba Cortez February 2010 May 2010 John B Alexander School Jonathan Jay Aguero United High School Raymundo Saldana LBJ High School Roberto Rangel United South High School Mario A. Marquez J.W. Nixon High School Lorena Reyes Martin High School Valeria Escobar United High School Pedro Moreno Cigarroa High School Karen Zavala United South High School Ana M. Medellin Cigarroa High School Alejandra Moreno Martin High School Stephany Rivera Cigarroa High School Mayra E. Gutierrez Sheriff Martin Cuellar March 2010 Congratulates you on your John B Alexander School Ricardo Torres promotion! LBJ High School Ignacio R. Idrogo J.W. Nixon High School Gerardo Chapa Jose Aguilar — Investigator Horacio Yzaguirre– Corporal I United High School Valentin Escamilla Marco Castilleja—Corporal II Cigarroa High School Jessica Quintana Raymundo Dovalina—Investigator Martin High School Reynold J. Rodriguez Ramiro Elizondo—Head Nurse Thank you for a job well done! Juan Garcia—Lieutenant Retirees George Gonzalez—Captain Victoria R. Valdez Lyndon W. Atwell Julio Gonzalez—Commander Esteban R. Ayala Adan C. Perez Victor Nenque—Sergeant Hector Martinez Juan Rendon—Commander 4 “Committed to Public Trust and Confidence.” WCSO Online: www.webbcountytx.gov/sheriff .