A Tom Green County grand jury met for one day this month and handed down 53 felony indictments on a variety of offenses in the 51st, 119th, 340th and 391st District Courts. From aggravated kidnapping, assault of a public servant, to sexual assault of a child, here are the accounts of some of those indictments.
69-Year-Old Man Faces Seven Counts of Aggravated Sexual Assault and Indecency with a Child
William Frank Avila, 69, of San Angelo faces four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and three counts of indecency with a child that includes sexual contact.
The original complaint states that, on Dec. 31, 2015, the victim, a 5-year-old girl, made an outcry of sexual abuse to her mother. The victim stated that during a visit with her siblings at their grandparents’ residence, her grandfather, Avila, took the victim into the dining room and a bedroom where he proceeded to sexually abuse her.
After his arrest, Avila admitted to sexually assaulting the victim both vaginally and orally for approximately one week. The victim also confirmed these assaults during a forensic interview. Each action during the assault is what Avila’s being charged with. The four counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than 6 years of age is a first degree felony and carries a minimum term of 25 years in prison. The other three counts of indecency with a child including sexual contact are second degree felonies.
Avila’s pre-trial scheduling begins April 5, 2016.
Man Faces Extended Stay in Prison for Aggravated Sexual Assault and Aggravated Assault
In another aggravated sexual assault case of a child, Jesse Lionel Rojas, 30, faces three counts of aggravated sexual assault and indecency with a child younger than 14 and 17, stemming back to 2005.
According to court records, on June 3, 2005, Rojas, who was 20 at the time, was found inside the Concho Valley Home for Girls located at 331 Preusser. Officers found him inside a closet in the bedroom of a victim, a 14-year-old girl, in only his black boxer shorts. Both Rojas and the girl had hickeys on their necks, and officers believed sexual contact did take place.
Additionally, Rojas assaulted his girlfriend of approximately one year on March 26, 2009. An SAPD officer noticed the victim to have numerous injuries on her face, and she appeared to be in pain from the injuries. The victim also had a large swollen bump on her forehead above her left eye, an abrasion on her nose and numerous bumps on her head under her hair. Rojas hit his girlfriend approximately 15 times, and the victim told officers she felt like Rojas was going to kill her.
Therefore, the indictment documentation notes that Rojas faces both first degree and second degree felony enhancements to life if a jury maintains his guilt of either aggravated sexual assault, aggravated assault of his girlfriend, or both.
Teen Sexually Assaults Central High School Student
Now 18-year-old Aaron Roper was indicted this month for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.
The complaint states that Officer Cruz Delacruz, while working off duty security at the Central Freshman Campus, was notified by the assistant principal that a 14-year-old student made an outcry of being sexually assaulted by Roper at his home on Oct. 22, 2015.
The victim told Delacruz she and another student, also 14, were at Roper’s residence visiting. Not too long after their arrival, Roper’s mother came home. Roper went into his room and told the victim to go with him via text. She said she went into Roper’s room to charge her phone, and, while alone in the bedroom, Roper sexually assaulted her by “penetrating her with his finger.”
The witness told Delacruz when she walked into Roper’s room after the incident, she saw Roper’s mother with her arm around the victim comforting her. The witness said the victim was upset and crying at the time, and later the victim told her about Roper sexually assaulting her.
Roper faces one charge of Sexual Assault of a Child, a second degree felony. His pre-trial scheduling also begins April 5, 2016.
Man Uses BB Gun to Hold Woman Captive
According to court documents, On Jan. 2 and 3, 2016, Orlando Marcus Gatica, 30, of San Angelo “intentionally and knowingly” abducted a woman “by restricting the movements without her consent so as to interfere substantially with her liberty, by moving her from one place to another or by confining her, with the intent to prevent her liberation.”
Additionally, Gatica held his victim in a place where she was not likely to be found, and threatened to use deadly force by shooting her with a BB gun should she attempt to escape. Officials determined the gun capable of causing death or serious bodily injury.
In addition to kidnapping his victim, Gatica fled Officer Brian Gesch, with the San Angelo Police Department, when he attempted to arrest Gatica. Therefore, Gatica faces one count of Aggravated Kidnapping, a first-degree felony, and one count of Evading Arrest Detention with a previous conviction, a state jail felony. His pre-trial is scheduled for April 5, 2016.
Inmate Fight Leads to Assault of Public Servants
Javier Lorenzo Rodriguez, 23, and Anastacio A. Govea, 36, are currently behind bars, and an incident on Jan. 20, 2016 may prompt an extended stay.
According to the original complaint, while incarcerated in the Tom Green County Jail, Rodriguez struck a detention officer attempting to break up a fight between two inmates, one being Govea. Rodriguez hit the officer several times with a closed fist on the left side of his face and left eye area, which caused a laceration above his left eye and swelling around his cheekbone area.
After this attack, Govea struck another officer in the mouth area with a closed fist two times, causing a cut and swollen top and bottom lip.
Surveillance at the Jail caught the attacks, and both detention officers received medical attention at Shannon Hospital for their injuries. The officer Rodriguez attacked required the laceration above his left eye to be closed with a medical adhesive.
For this assault, Rodriguez is charged with Assault of a Public Servant, a third degree felony enhanced to a second degree felony. Govea faces the same charge as a third degree felony enhanced to habitual felony.
Other crimes people were indicted for include drug possession, domestic violence, burglary, injury to a child and more.
To view the March indictment list, click here.
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