Former police captain accused of holding repairman at gunpoint to prove voter fraud
Investigators say Mark Anthony Aguirre, 63, caused an accident and held an innocent man at gunpoint while trying to prove voter fraud. Author: KHOU 11 Staff Updated: 1:37 PM EST December 16, 2020
HOUSTON A former Houston Police Department captain is accused of causing an accident and holding a man at gunpoint to prove his claims of voter fraud.
Mark Anthony Aguirre, 63, is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony. He was arrested Tuesday.
“He crossed the line from dirty politics to commission of a violent crime and we are lucky no one was killed,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said. “His alleged investigation was backward from the start – first alleging a crime had occurred and then trying to prove it happened.”
HOUSTON, Texas A former Houston Police Department Captain was arrested and charged for running a man off the road and pointing a gun at his head in an attempt to prove claims of a massive voter fraud scheme in Harris County, according to a news release from the Harris County s DA s office.
Mark Anthony Aguirre, 63, was arrested by Houston police Tuesday and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. He crossed the line from dirty politics to commission of a violent crime, and we are lucky no one was killed, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said. His alleged investigation was backward from the start - first alleging a crime had occurred and then trying to prove it happened.
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HOUSTON – A former Houston police captain has been charged after being accused of holding a repairman at gunpoint in a bogus voter-fraud conspiracy, according to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.
The former captain, Mark Anthony Aguirre, 63, was arrested Tuesday and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. If found guilty, he could face up to 20 years in prison.
Aguirre, who went to authorities with pre-election claims that a massive voter fraud scheme was underway in Harris County, is accused of running a man off the road while pointing a gun at his head in an attempt to prove his claims, prosecutors said.
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Aguirre spent 24 years in the Houston Police Department before he was fired in 2003 over his role in a failed raid in a department store s parking lot.
An air-conditioning repairman was driving his truck through Houston in late October when suddenly a black SUV slammed into his tail. When he got out, the SUV s driver leaped out and pointed a gun at his head, police said. When police arrived, the gunman offered an incredible tale: The driver, he said, was the face of a vast election-fraud scheme and had about 750,000 fake ballots stuffed inside his truck.