{"id":54940,"date":"2025-11-18T18:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54940\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:41:06","slug":"charges-dropped-against-former-rep-joe-molinar-for-hitting-parked-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/54940\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges dropped against former Rep. Joe Molinar for hitting parked car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; Former El Paso City Representative Joe Molinar, who was charged with hitting an unattended vehicle with his car, has had that charge dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Molinar, who formerly represented District 4, which covers Northeast El Paso, was charged with Duty on Striking an Unattended Vehicle after an <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/news\/el-paso\/2025\/07\/15\/former-el-paso-city-rep-joe-molinar-admits-to-hit-and-run-at-east-el-paso-chinese-restaurant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">incident<\/a> in the Quik Wok parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Motion to Dismissed, which was signed by a judge and filed on October 20, 2025, the charge was dropped due to insurance restitution, meaning that Molinar&#8217;s insurance paid the other party for the damage done to their car.<\/p>\n<p>Molinar&#8217;s attorney Brian Kennedy confirmed the dismissal order, and told ABC-7 he has no comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the Motion to Dismiss below.<\/p>\n<p>ABC-7 has reached out to the El Paso District Attorney&#8217;s Office for comment on this case. We are waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; Former El Paso City Representative Joe Molinar, who was charged with hitting an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-54940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54940","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=54940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}