Two Maverick County Deputy Sheriff’s Test Positive for COVID-19, Totaling Three Now
By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020
Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber announced that two Deputy Sheriffs tested positive for COVID-19 and will be quarantined pursuant to the Eagle Pass and Maverick County Emergency Operations Center and Local Health Authority policies.
With these two Deputy Sheriffs testing positive for COVID-19, there are now a total of three Deputy Sheriffs within the Maverick County Sheriff’s Department with the coronavirus.
In addition, there are a total of three Maverick County Jailers at the Tom Bowles Detention Center who have tested positive for COVID-19.
Further, on Friday, July 31, 2020, the first inmate at the Tom Bowles Detention Center in Eagle Pass, Texas tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Sheriff Schmerber noted that he has requested the assistance of the Emergency Operations Center to bring down to Eagle Pass the Texas National Guard medical team to test all the inmates at the Tom Bowles Detention Center and is awaiting their reply.
Sheriff Schmerber added that he has been tested on four occasions for the COVID-19 to ensure that he is not infected nor infects other co-workers and his family with negative results all four times.
