Grand jurors indict suspect on charges of child sexual assault
By GARY KENT
Bee-Picayune staff
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posted July 16 -
A Beeville man could be sentenced to 99 years in prison if convicted in district court of the first degree felony of aggravated sexual assault.
Beeville Police Department Detective Rene Guerrero said the defendant, Robert Raul Paz, will turn 22 on Thursday, exactly one week after the Bee County Grand Jury returned the two-count indictment against him.
Paz was accused of having sexual contact with a child under the age of 14 two times on July 5, 2007. Guerrero said the victim was 13 at the time of the offense.
Because of the victim’s age, both counts are first degree felonies punishable by a prison term of from five to 99 years in a Texas penitentiary and a fine of as much as $10,000 upon conviction.
Paz’s bond was set at $15,000 by District Judge Janna Whatley.
Others indicted on July 10 by grand jurors included:
•Randy Ray Martinez in a four-count indictment on charges ranging from a state jail felony to a first degree felony.
According to investigators with the Bee County Sheriff’s Department, the charges against the suspect include two counts of the state jail felony of delivery of a controlled substance, cocaine, less than one gram. The offenses allegedly took place on Nov. 26 and on Nov. 28, 2007. State jail felonies are punishable by a prison term of from six months to two years in a state jail facility and a fine of as much as $10,000.
The third count of the indictment was on the first degree felony of delivery of a controlled substance, cocaine, between one and four grams and using a child to make the delivery.
The fourth count of the indictment was on a charge of possession of a controlled substance, cocaine, with intent to deliver, between one and four grams. That charge is a second degree felony punishable by a prison term of from two to 20 years and a fine of as much as $10,000.
According to the confidential informant who provided investigators with the information that led to the charges, Martinez had a child younger than 18 make a delivery to the witness on Dec. 10, 2007. The fourth count of the indictment, the possession charge, allegedly took place on Dec. 20, 2007.
Bond was $2,000.
•Roberto Martinez Gonzales on a charge of felony driving while intoxicated, enhanced to a punishment range of from 25-99 years or life in prison.
Deputies alleged that Gonzales was operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance on March 18 of this year.
According to the indictment, Gonzales has previous DWI convictions on June 12, 1975, in Willacy County, on July 17, 1978, in Hale County, on Sept. 25, 1987, in Cameron County and on Oct. 20, 1988, in Tom Green County.
The charge on the indictment was enhanced based on a previous felony DWI conviction on July 15, 1991, in Willacy County. Gonzales was placed on community supervision at that time but that was revoked on Dec. 22, 1992, and he was sentenced to five years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
The defendant also had a felony DWI conviction in Dallas county on Aug. 14, 1997.
Bond was $5,000.
Grand jurors also indicted Gonzales on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm in connection with the DWI arrest.
The punishment range of that offense also was enhanced to 25-99 years or life in prison, based on the same felony convictions listed in the DWI indictment.
The firearms charge was filed because deputies found a gun in his vehicle before the fifth anniversary of his release from parole for his most recent felony conviction.
Bond for that indictment was $2,500.
•Christian Nicole Gutierrez in a three-count indictment on charges of delivery of a controlled substance, cocaine, one to four grams in a drug-free zone.
Each of the three counts was a first degree felony.
Deputies alleged that the defendant sold the drug to a confidential informant on two occasions on Jan. 4 and to an undercover officer on Jan. 16.
The indictment listed the drug-free zone as being within 1,000 feet of a playground at the Beeville Housing Authority property at 1206 N. Ave. B.
Bond was $2,500.
•Gilbert Bobby Davila in a two-count indictment.
The first count was on a charge of delivery of a controlled substance, cocaine, less than one gram in a drug-free zone. The charge is a third degree felony punishable by a prison term of from two to ten years and a fine of as much as $10,000.
Deputies alleged that the offense took place on Nov. 9, 2007.
The second count of the indictment was on a charge of delivery of a controlled substance, cocaine, one to four grams in a drug-free zone. That charge is a first degree felony.
Deputies claimed that the second transaction took place on Dec. 21, 2007.
According to the indictment, both transactions were made within 1,000 feet of a playground at the Capehart Subdivision at 2501 Lexington St.
Bond was $1,500.
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