Editor-In-Chief
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Really, why is anyone surprised? Abel C. Limas, the former 404th District Judge, admitted he took a bribe when arrested this week. Here, in this forever-corrupt town of some 120,000 citizens and non-citizens, he arrived as just the latest in a long string of officials who fell for the easy money.
Yeah, he's still in prison for helping drugs move north from Mexico.
Goofy, funny business chases this town like a one-legged prostitute, the wench forever teasing, but always failing to deliver. These bad guys in robes and tarnished badges do get caught sooner or later. People will talk. Booze spills secrets. Brownsville is nothing if not a den of sin and corruption. The city collars owners and operators of unregistered massage parlors, but looks the other way when a bureaucrat goes wrong. It outaws plastic bags at local grocery stores, but it ignores scofflaws owing traffic tickets. DWI may as well be the equal of dissing a patrol boy at a school-crossing.
Reaching for the quick green is something locals are reportedly born with, that easy money being better than simply working for it. Games of chance float across the bars counters. Football pools make the neighborhood rounds. They're illegal, but what the hey - it's Brownsville, the lower colon of the Rio Grande Valley, a place where shame has no place in town, not even in church.
Perhaps that is why the mayor can deposit a $26,000 City of Brownsville check not meant for him and then hire a sharp lawyer to talk him out of the mess. In Brownsville, if you want something bad enough, you go for it. Cops coming to your door and court appearances are down the road.
He'll face the music in court, although he's already admitted he is guilty. And, who knows, the judge has no apparent record as a law breaker, so he'll likely get probation. Much depends on how vigorously the prosecution goes after him.
In Cameron County, that's a huge question, which points to another aspect of that magical word: corruption. It's not simply about money going from your hand to my mine; it, too, is about living life in a civilized, law-abiding manner in a world where everybody is equal - in and out of court.
Gone are the seemingly honorable years of service to the bench, those years between 2001 and 2007. The immediate reaction followed the usual pattern here. That cackled laughter that included his name in cantina jokes moved across town last night. But, then, people in poor and dusty Brownsville like to laugh everything off...
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44 comments:
Nobody I know will cry for Limas. he had it all and blew it. you don't feel a damn thin for people like that. hope he gets jail time.
good interesting article. it needed to be said. That judge will regret everything. but his poor wife and family well what do they do now? it's crazy.
Limas got what he deserved. no reason to feel sorry for him. only know there are more like him out there. You're right it's part of the culture. crazy people. they lose it all!
What a good article, you are soooo right. Brownsville, like Harlingen, like San Benito, like Port Isabel, are the hub of corruption.
I hope he sings like a jail bird, and list all of his accomplices.
Hey, folks, listen to this, Tonies Chapanenco's post, he wants the Rubio's jailed for life.
So Champaneco, it wasn't the Rubio's who had a son-in-law murdered at the Maryland apts. and hire attorney's to defend them, it wasn't the Rubio's who refuse a poligraph exam, it wasn't the Rubio's, who ran to an ex-wife and hid under her dress and hid in her house and left BIIIIIGGG Cholona to fend for herself, when police were asking questions, it wasn't the Rubio's who gave the IP numbers to police and wanted to shine their shoes and badges.
I think you are the one that should be in prison for life, Chaparron, mamon cool-arrrow!!!!
"Chapanenco for life", Anon I think they should charge Chaparron, capon, for running such a rag line blog, no vale madre el viejo loco. Jail time, if he obstructed an investigation.
Viejo hotinchon, ayi en la carcel se te quita lo osicon.
The Cameron County Hall of Justice is no more than a cess pool of Tony Soprano's people. Pura jente chueca. Y que le gusta la payola
Green backs.
Chapa has no sense of what's right or wrong if he split when cops wanted to interview him about the murder of his son-in-law. He should SHUT UP!!!
Judge Limas will now know what it feels like to stand on the other side of the law. Pobrecito. Exelent story.
hey, Video News on the sidebar is a great addition to The Tribune. Jerry deal had he story, but just words. This was much better. And that was Gloria Campos, our old anchor from Channel 4! Loved it.
Chapparron's blog, 2 comments one from him and one from a made up blogger. Ayayai, ayayai, se te acobo el borlote, que se va uno y levanto a 20, [no, que no, mamon.]
I think, I will drive to Houston next week-end, flying Southwest could be hazardous to my health. Damn, scarry if you ask me.
Champaneco feels like the Maytag repairman, no one visits him anymore. Everyone is now at Paz-Martinez blog, or Jerry's blog, even chickenbuckets, has more comments than short evil man's blog.
Chanpaenecon, pidele perdon a Paz-Martinez, pidele perdon a Jerry Deal, al la gallinafrita, shine their shoes, like you offered to the police.
Admitelo, to blog, lla perdio todos los bloggers que en un tiempo abuste.
Diles que te perdonen, caite de roddillas, como los peros hombres, a se me via olvidado, a ti te faltan cajones.
The score card says:
Tribune 14 comments,
Myhgnnews 1 comment another one from the operator.
The Winner, the Trib.
Agree. chapaneco is a nothing. a short, nothing. Pinche hombre enano. Le pusieron los cuernos y se fue a llorar! LOL!!!
All chapaneco has are his press releases and Bible verses. No press releases on weekends, so he's left with the Bible. He's using the Good Book to bash people now! Pobre menso.
When is Big Dawg Rubio going to drop the hammer on Chapaneco? the dwarf wants him and his bro in prison? let's see them duke it out!
Nice video on the Southwest Airlines story. I fly it in and out of Harlingen and always wonder about those old planes. They seem old anyway. How does a hole in the roof happen? maintenance must be the problem.
Big dawg called him out in Jerry's blog, Chapapenco, was blogging under the blog name of Factoid, and was exposed by the Dawg, but he ran, he runs, when the going gets tough.
And he hides under womens dresses, well he has a BIIGGG Cholona to hide under.
Cuernudo, te pusieron los cuernos.
His rumor mill blog, as it was described by someone, is his only outlet. The man has no life, we are glad Jakester, saw the light and abondoned him.
As has benton, King Canute, occassionally, blogs there, but he is history. Mamon,jajajajajajajajaja!!!!!!!!!
So they are cutting programs in the Arts, and increase funding for the purpose of anti-abortion, let me see who is going to take care of these kids, when the moms aren't around?? And the fathers are in prison, yep you guess it the welfare dept. supported by hard working people.
The videos posted on the side bar are cool as heck. Good deal, Mr. Editor.
who is this idiot writing as Rancherita, sounds like a blogger, who blogged racist comments before.
The news reported some of the Airplanes are 15 years old. Those are old junkers Southwest is flying.
I am curious, why Villalobos never looked into the rumors, is it true the feds told him to bud-out??
Mr. DP-M does the STIJA really exist, and where is their headquarters.
Jerry Deal says he has never heard of this association, what say you???
I heard similiar comments to what blogger sal reported, at the little coffee shop at the court. I guess the Feds don't trust the locals.
McAllen men in high heels? Wow!!! They must value women in that town. Not in Brownsville. Our women must be able to take a fe punches to the face when they don't have dinner ready. LOL!!!
jake is blogging as Vince Mantuna on Chapaneco's blog. They're still at it. even after Jake promised not to blog there. The Tribune editor is not gong to be happy. back on the lawsuit for jake and Tony. Laugh about that one!
ALL:...We axed the comments submitted by "El Rancherito" because it failed to meet our standard for civil discourse. We have liberalized our approach to gauging all comments, but idiots will still not find a place at this table. There is another low-end Blog they have at their disposal, and we are sure they will be welcomed there. It goes without saying that The Tribune appreciates its readers and commenters, and it is good to see our commenters exposing miscreants at every turn... - Editor
We know what to do. And thanx for kicking them out.
We don't need that Jachal here, Deals Bloggers complained until he left. Seriously, the man is dysfunctional, nothing, but foul language, and suggestive comments, for all we know, this guy is on a wanted list somewhere.
We knew all along, he was using other bloggers names for the sake of helping out the failing blog. It is either at that blog, or BLR, those are the only places that accept profanities, and losers.
I am against Womens Violence, but high heels, well, I'll take a rain check.
if Chapaneco accepts him he shuld stay there. Who needs dirt? One can't write and the other wants the wife of he one who can't write. They don't represent anything in the Valley and surely are not Hispanics. Chapaneco won't say if he's an American and the other fool shouldn't be.
Ralph,I read the blog, and the article, do the crime do the time, I'm pretty sure, all 5 comments are from the same blogger. Chapancno is down to 3 to 0 comments a day. And his buddy (Jachal) is the author of the comments.
chapaneco's blog died weeks ago. It's just a joke. No one reads it and no one cares. he burned his friends and he won't talk about the murder of his son in law and how the cops couldn't find Chapete to question him. Es un abandonado, ese dwarf!
What a coward, the husband, hires a hit man to shoot the bread winner of the home. I think there is more to the story. The Valley Morning Star, has her picture on the Obituaries on todays paper.
Anon, they were ministers, at el Ranchito's church. A minister out of all people, killing the Mother of his kids.
What's the matter, wife beating isn't good enough anymore?? A la carcel, jail bird minister.
Did you hear Luis Saenz, explain to the minister his rights in Spanish, he even ask for an attorney. What a bummer, can pay a hit man, but a lawyer.
He should have just divorced her.
The Feds now need to look into the DAs office to see if cases were not filed? Why? One ADA got released because he was dismissing cases? What did they do with them? The office manager may need looking into also?
They say Llimas broke down and cried when he got back home after the court appearance. A little late, bro.
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