Eagle Pass Dollar General Theft Suspect Evades Police On His Automobile 

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017

Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber announced that Jose Luis Martinez, age 37, was allegedly accused of theft by Dollar General employees on Del Rio Boulevard in Eagle Pass, Texas of walking out of the store without paying for certain merchandise and evading law enforcement authorities with his automobile, requiring a police chase from northern Maverick County to southern Maverick County on Monday, December 18, 2017.

According to the preliminary report, Maverick County Constable Precinct 3 Deputies responded to the Dollar General Store on Del Rio Boulevard in Seco Mines Subdivision in Eagle Pass, but Martinez got into his automobile and drove off the store and refused to stop after being flashed with police car lights by Maverick County Constable Deputies.

Subsequently, Maverick County Sheriff’s Department Deputies joined the chase and were able to finally stop Martinez on El Indio Highway (FM 1021) in southern Maverick County.

Martinez was arrested by Maverick County Sheriff Department Deputies and charged with theft and evading Police and booked into Maverick County Tom Bowles Detention Center where he was awaiting to be magistrated and given a bond amount by a Magistrate Judge, usually a Justice of the Peace.