{"id":60511,"date":"2025-11-22T07:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/60511\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:55:15","slug":"case-against-former-el-paso-official-joe-molinar-dismissed-after-hit-and-run-incident-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/60511\/","title":{"rendered":"Case against former El Paso official Joe Molinar dismissed after hit-and-run incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Former El Paso city representative Joe Molinar&#8217;s case on striking an unattended vehicle has been dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>The case was dismissed on October 20. <\/p>\n<p>Former El Paso city representative Joe Molinar was arrested and charged with duty on striking an unattended vehicle in July. <\/p>\n<p>The incident allegedly involved Molinar after surveillance footage of the event circulated widely online earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The video, captured by security cameras at Quik Wok Chinese Cuisine, shows a black truck backing out of a restaurant parking lot, colliding with a parked car, and then driving away.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was allegedly Molinar.<\/p>\n<p>The footage shows Molinar stepping out of the vehicle to inspect the damage before leaving the scene without leaving a note or exchanging insurance information.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/former-el-paso-councilman-joe-molinar-charged-in-hit-and-run-incident-caught-on-camera?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former El Paso councilman, police officer Joe Molinar arrested in suspected crash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Former El Paso city representative Joe Molinar&#8217;s case on striking an unattended vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-60511","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\/60511","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=60511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}