Three Maverick County Confirmed Positive COVID-19 Persons Defy Quarantine Rules as Total Cases Rise to 98
By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020
Maverick County, Texas, including its county seat of Eagle Pass, continue seeing a steady increase of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases as one additional person tested positive on Friday, May 22, 2020, raising the total number of positive cases to 98, according to Eagle Pass Mayor Luis E. Sifuentes.
Mayor Sifuentes stated a total of 1,794 people have been tested for COVID-19 with 1,245 negative results, 98 positive results, 451 waiting for results, 19 recovered people, and one fatality as of May 22 2020.
The highlight of the May 22, 2020 joint press conference of the City of Eagle Pass and Maverick County was the shocking revelation by Maverick County Judge David R. Saucedo that three persons who have tested positive for COVID-19 in Maverick County and who are under quarantine rules are “continuing to defy quarantine rules,” potentially infecting other people in the community with the deadly virus.
Judge Saucedo warned these three persons during the live press conference on Facebook that state law provides that they may be charged with a third-degree felony for defying their quarantine and potentially exposing other residents with the Coronavirus.
Investigators of the Eagle Pass and Maverick County Emergency Operations Center have seen these three positive COVID-19 individuals who remain under quarantine out in public instead of self-isolation in their homes. The threat of these three positive COVID-19 individuals exponentially infecting other Maverick County residents is real and the propensity to cause a spread of the lethal COVID-19 virus is extremely dangerous.
Maverick County residents have expressed that the Eagle Pass and Maverick County Emergency Operations Center and Local Health Authority should have zero tolerance for confirmed positive COVID-19 persons who have not completed their quarantine and remain active with the deadly virus from defying and flaunting the public health emergency quarantine rules of the State of Texas. The threat of exponentially infecting hundreds or thousands of innocent residents of Maverick County with the invisible COVID-19 virus is real.
According to Texas law, if a person either pleads guilty or is found guilty of a third degree felony, they face between two to ten years of incarceration, a fine of up to $10,000, community supervision, court costs and expenses.
If a person is charged with a third degree felony under state law in Texas, they will be arrested and detained at the county jail until the time of trial, unless they post bail (bond) to get out of jail. The District Attorney’s Office prosecutes felony cases in Texas.
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