{"id":1932,"date":"2025-10-14T04:39:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/1932\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T04:39:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:39:26","slug":"schertz-officers-rearrest-man-in-corpus-christi-faces-new-murder-charge-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/1932\/","title":{"rendered":"Schertz officers rearrest man in Corpus Christi, faces new murder charge, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">SCHERTZ, Texas \u2013 Schertz police officers said they needed to travel more than 100 miles south to arrest a suspect accused of murdering a woman in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to a news release, a Guadalupe County grand jury indicted Aaron James Declouette, 62, on two charges on Oct. 2: murder (first-degree felony) and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence (third-degree felony).<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">After a warrant for Declouette\u2019s arrest was issued, Schertz police officers said they were able to track the suspect down Monday in Corpus Christi \u2014 with the help of the Corpus Christi Police Department\u2019s gang unit \u2014 without incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">Police originally identified Declouette as a person of interest in connection with the death of Lisa Sipes. In a 2024 news release, authorities said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2024\/07\/01\/man-arrested-in-connection-with-suspicious-death-of-woman-schertz-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sipes, 42, was found dead inside her apartment<\/a> in May 2023 at the Palmera Apartments in the 500 block of FM 3009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Schertz police determined Sipes\u2019 death as \u201csuspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">According to the same 2024 news release, Declouette was arrested on June 28, 2024, and booked into the Guadalupe County Jail on a tampering with evidence charge related to Sipes\u2019 death. Jail records indicate that he bonded out of custody on June 29, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Authorities said on Monday that Declouette is in the process of being extradited back to the Guadalupe County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A Guadalupe County judge set his new bond at $1 million, according to Monday\u2019s news release. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Below is Declouette\u2019s Monday mugshot after he was booked into the Guadalupe County Jail. <\/p>\n<p>James Declouette, 62, was rearrested on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025.  (Guadalupe County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Schertz police said that this case remains under investigation. Anyone with additional information related to the case is asked to contact the Schertz Police Department at 210-619-1200.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">More coverage of this story on KSAT: <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCHERTZ, Texas \u2013 Schertz police officers said they needed to travel more than 100 miles south to arrest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,294,2507,2508,367],"class_list":{"0":"post-1932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-guadalupe-county","13":"tag-guadalupe-county-sheriffs-office","14":"tag-schertz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}