WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2017

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RABIES officer, and it doesn’t

seem feasible to me that
outside on Gyna Lane
in the Val Verde Park THEFT ees, Jessica Hernandez not described in the
and Jose Trevino, take complaint.
From Page 1A you have someone out- Estates area. Deputies From Page 1A items without purchas- The total value of the
side of the person that’s went to the area but ing them,” Zambrano stolen merchandise
enforce rabies control responsible for animal were unable to find the of Home Depot were wrote. was given as $778.92.
in the county.” control as the sheriff is, animal. found to be stealing The Home Depot in- “(I) was shown se-
He said he brought to have someone else Cerny said the girl items,” Zambrano vestigator told police, curity camera footage
the issue before the looking over his shoul- had to take a series of wrote in an affidavit he “In the process of ring- of the incident which
court in November der,” Cerny said. rabies vaccine shots filed in the case. ing up items, Hernan- showed Hernandez
2014 and said the Cerny said the since the animal could “Clapper stated that dez would cancel the ring up the items
county animal con- county could name the not be found, but on Nov. 16, an item then taking
trol order in place at sheriff as the county’s noted he later spoke incident was from the items out
that time designated rabies control author- to the mother, and she created within the of the trans-
the county animal ity since the county’s claimed the child had Home Depot’s trans- action but
control officer as the animal control officer suffered no ill effects automated ac- keeping them
county rabies control will also be working for from the shots. system show- tion, in the cart. (I)
authority. the sheriff. Cerny said he did not ing that (the mak- noted that at
During that 2014 Cerny said the learn of the incident sale) of several ing it the end of the
meeting, Cerny said, appointment is import- until a week after it items (was) ap- transaction,
the court rescinded the ant because concerns occurred. suspended, pear Trevino then
county’s existing ani- about rabies continue “This is what showing that that grabbed two
mal control order and to be an issue in the prompted me to put someone had Jose Trevino the Jessica Hernandez sodas and paid
appointed him as the county because of the that item on the attempted to item for the items,
county’s rabies control large numbers of stray (commissioners court) stop a transaction and was rung up but in then walked the items
authority. dogs, especially in agenda, because you possibly hold the items reality it was not.” out to his vehicle and
Cerny said, “We get a areas like Val Verde see the disconnection for someone,” Zambra- Clapper claimed placed them in the
lot of calls, and I think Park Estates and here,” he said. no wrote. Hernandez did this rear and drove off
there needs to be some Cienegas Terrace. He “On Nov. 17, a lady The officer noted with several items: without paying for the
thought given as to who did note, however, that walked into the sher- Clapper told him that a seven-and-a-half- merchandise,” Zam-
should be the rabies no confirmed cases iff’s office complaining “holding items was foot tall tree, valued brano wrote.
control authority.” of rabies have been about a stray white flagged in the automat- at $399; an inflatable Zambrano reported
Last year, he said, the recorded in Val Verde pit bull roaming the ed system since thefts Santa, valued at $99; he was given a state-
court created an animal County so far this neighborhood, and she occur frequently with an electric blower, ment from the Home
control department year. made mention that held items.” valued at $149; a Depot investigator,
since the county was in Cerny recounted a re- this dog had recently “Clapper stated that turkey fryer, valued as well as the video
the process of build- cent incident in which bitten her neighbor’s when he arrived in Del at $59; an air tank, footage.
ing an animal control a 10-year-old girl was daughter, so she was Rio on Nov. 29 to con- valued at $30.97; Justice of the Peace
facility. That facility, bitten by a dog in the concerned that this duct his investigation peanut oil, valued at Pct. 1 Jim Bob Barrera
he said, is about “three Val Verde Park Estates dog was still roaming,” and while checking se- $29.97; and an item Sr. set bond for Her-
weeks to a month” area of the county. Cerny said. curity camera footage, called “400ARHRLS,” nandez and Trevino at
away from completion. Cerny said about Cerny said VVSO Lt. he noticed two employ- valued at $11.98 but $1,800 each.
The court, he said, 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 14, Manuel “Manny” Her-
placed the animal con- sheriff’s office deputies rera called the city’s
trol department under were dispatched to the animal control staff,
the purview of the Val emergency room at Val whose members were
Verde County Sheriff’s Verde Regional Medical able to trap the dog and
Office. Center to meet with a place it into quarantine
“Basically what we woman and her 10-year- the dog for 10 days until
have is, we have the old daughter. it could be euthanized.
sheriff in charge of that, The woman told dep- “This was a stray
and we have a position uties a white pit bull dog, and no one was
in the sheriff’s office had bitten her daughter able to find an owner,”
for an animal control while she was playing Cerny said.

WEATHER vertical temperature

From Page 1A
wintry precipitation
for portions of the Hill
Country and the south-
ern Edwards Plateau
Wednesday afternoon
through early Thurs-
day morning.
“A mix of rain and
snow is likely Wednes-
day afternoon into
Thursday morning
across the Hill Country
and southern Edwards
Plateau, primarily
north and west of a
Comstock to Comfort to
Georgetown line,” the
alert warns.
A brief period of
all snow, the bulletin
states, is possible early
Thursday morning for
far northern Val Verde,
Edwards, and Real
Counties and western
Kerr, Gillespie and
Llano Counties, where
profiles will be most
favorable for snow.
“Little to no impacts
are expected from the
wintry precipitation
given the warm soil
temperatures from the
previous period of well-
above-normal tempera-
tures, and the fact that
surface temperatures
should likely remain
above freezing, it is
unlikely that there will
be any snow accumu-
lations,” said the NWS
regional office.
Any snow should melt
upon contact with the
ground. However, if tem-
peratures begin trend-
ing colder, it is possible
that some very slight
accumulations may be
possible across the afore-
mentioned areas where
all snow is most likely,
especially for northern
Edwards and western
Kerr Counties.
The San Antonio and
Austin metro areas are
expected to receive all
rain. If temperatures
begin trending colder, We are always interested in hearing
it is possible that the
rain/snow mix line about news in our community.
could make its way Let us know what’s going on!
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A strong cold front
passed through the
region Tuesday morn-
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An upper level distur-
bance moving across
Texas tomorrow will
bring widespread rain
showers to the area. As
temperatures drop fur-
ther late Wednesday af-
ternoon into Thursday
morning, this should
support snowflakes
mixed in with the rain,
as well as the possibili-
ty of some locations to
receive a brief period of
all snow early Thurs-
day morning.

HOLIDAY to learn about how to cope with

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community members who need help
coping with the death of a loved one.
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