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Carolyn Rodriguez

Released
Gender:Female
Race:Hispanic
Era:2010s
State:Texas
Time Imprisoned:
1 Day
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Carolyn Rodriguez

Biography

Carolyn Rodriguez is a local activist and copwatcher in Fort Worth Texas. Over the course of her work she found Fort Worth police seemed to be targeting the vehicles of bar workers late at night, she set out to investigate. According to Carolina, many of the tow companies in the city are operated by retired police officers, raising questions about the possibility of a racket being run from within the police department. As she was filming police towing cars in the downtown area, an officer familiar to Carolina confronted her and ordered her to leave the area, when she questioned why the officer slammed Rodriguez to the ground knocking her unconscious and leaving her

Custody record

Contemporary Star-Telegram reporting places her Fort Worth arrest on Sunday, June 23, 2024 and release on bond on Monday, June 24. The same reporting identifies an earlier August 2019 guilty plea with a one-day sentence; actual service of that earlier sentence remains unverified and has not been added to the total.

Sources: Source 1; Source 2.

Case

Tarrant County Jail
Charges: Interference with public duties (Texas Penal Code § 38.15); false alarm or report (acquitted); resisting arrest (abandoned by the prosecution before trial).
Arrested: Jun 23, 2024
Incarcerated: Jun 23, 2024
Released: Jun 24, 2024
Sentence: Arrested June 23, 2024 in Fort Worth and booked into jail after hospital treatment, held overnight until release the next day.
Judge: Brian Bolton
Institution State: Texas