SAN ANGELO— A San Angelo man who discharged a weapon into a jewelry case at the Northside Walmart in San Angelo took a plea deal in district court Thursday.
According to court documents, Andrew Reyna, who was arrested last summer after shooting the jewelry case in the Northside Wal-Mart, had a court date Thursday for several crimes over the past few years.
Reyna has been arrested for criminal mischief and burglary of a building for the incident in Walmart, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, and unauthorized absence from a correctional facility.
In July 2022, the San Angelo Police Department sent out a Nixle informing the public about a “shots fired” call at the 29th Street Walmart. According to court documents, it was learned that Reyna and another subject has walked to the jewelry department, produced a handgun, and discharged the weapon into the display case. Several items were taken from the broken case and the subjects fled.
In November 2018, Reyna was arrested for taking and operating a stolen vehicle. On November 20 at around 7:00 a.m., a call for service was initiated near the intersection of 22nd Street and Oaks Street for a stolen vehicle. The victim began actively tracking the vehicle using GPS, which showed the truck in the area of the 600 block of East 42nd Street.
A nearby officer checked the alley and located the vehicle and two occupants rummaging through it in the back yard of an unoccupied home. Both subjects fled but were captured once the officer activated his overhead lights.
Lastly, Reyna is also facing unauthorized absence from a community corrections facility. Investigators were dispatched to the Men’s Community Correctional Facility for the report of an absconder.
After Reyna had been transported to Shannon Medical Center for treatment, he tossed his hospital paperwork at the community correction employee and ran eastbound on East Harris towards his listen residence. Reyna was then arrested at the residence without incident.
In exchange for a guilty plea on all counts, Reyna was sentenced to one year in state jail and a $479.33 fine.
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How is discharging a firearm in a Walmart in order to steal jewelry not armed robbery? On top of this add criminal mischief, burglary, car theft and escape from a correctional facility. For all these crimes he gets a whole year in jail. No telling what he's done and didn't get caught. No wonder he keeps committing crimes. No wonder crime is skyrocketing.
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PermalinkThe city is complicit in letting these crimes be charged as by police and later prosecuted as by the county attorney "most likely" as misdemeanor offenses. When presented with blatant felonious activity, should we really as the citizens just sit quietly and let both sides play us all? Several times over the past 10 years that I've been paying attention, criminals get a slap on the hand for this kind of thing. Not saying that I don't believe in prosecutorial discretion, or grace but there's something wrong when we are starting to look like Houston does with it's justice system. Is it to make San Angelo statistically "safer" on paper? What is it? We deserve answers and we deserve to see the changes we want. I didn't miss the ballot last election and I won't be missing any in the near future either. I didn't fight my "rear" off and lose everything but my families lives, being threatened by a known domestic terrorist to watch this happen in the city I was born and raised in and stay silent. I hope and pray to God that others start to look a little bit closer.
If you see a felony, call it one or quit being a cop in my opinion. If you see a career offender or serious first time offender as a prosecutor of any level representing ME! I want felonies prosecuted, I want to be hard on crime, let these suckers know there's a price to pay, otherwise you get nothing done while we all suffer. Can't really say there's no reason to be upset when these are the results we see... Maybe being angry at citizens isn't helping. Maybe if the prosecutors in the county attorney's office weren't dismissing charges that were filed without even looking at the evidence presented, we'd run a little more efficiently and the people, the police and the county attorney's office might resemble the symbiotic relationship that it should.
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