{"id":356464,"date":"2026-06-30T23:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356464\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T23:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T23:24:20","slug":"former-duval-assistant-county-attorney-arrested-on-drug-charges-after-corpus-christi-traffic-stop-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356464\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Duval assistant county attorney arrested on drug charges after Corpus Christi traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The former assistant county attorney was arrested last Friday after a traffic stop in downtown Corpus Christi led to drug charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Texas Department of Public Safety identified the driver as Jaime Garza, 72. 3NEWS confirmed Garza resigned from his position on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to DPS, a trooper stopped Garza at about 2:40 p.m. June 26 after observing a traffic violation involving a 2020 Dodge Ram on Chaparral Street, east of Interstate 37.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the stop, the trooper suspected drugs were being concealed in the vehicle and requested a DPS narcotics K-9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Before the K-9 search was conducted, Garza admitted there was marijuana inside the truck, according to DPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That admission gave the trooper probable cause to search the vehicle. DPS said the search uncovered marijuana along with additional controlled substances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Garza was arrested and booked into the Nueces County Jail on charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DPS did not release additional information about the type or quantity of the controlled substances allegedly found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former assistant county attorney was arrested last Friday after a traffic stop in downtown Corpus Christi led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,126610,6877,48101],"class_list":["post-356464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-jaime-garza","tag-texas-department-of-public-safety","tag-traffic-violation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356464","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=356464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}