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Los Fresnos man jailed for running car off road
Posted: 07.19.2010 at 4:59 PM
Sergio Chapa

Sergio is KGBT's Interactive Manager and a reporter for VALLEYCENTRAL.COM.

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A Los Fresnos man is behind bars after being arrested for running a van with his girlfriend's ex-husband and his son off the road.

Cameron County Sheriff's Department deputies arrested 24-year-old Cesar Martinez under terroristic threat, deadly conduct and child endangerment charges.

Deputies told Action 4 News that they were called to the rural community of Laureles shortly after 11 a.m. Friday.

Court records show that the victim picked up a Lone Star card from his ex-wife and was headed to the grocery store.

The man told deputies that Martinez is his ex-wife's current boyfriend.

Martinez allegedly tried to pick a fight with the man and then followed him in a mini-van when he left.

The man told deputies that Martinez ran him off the road and into a ditch.

Martinez reportedly got out of his mini-van and started hitting the man's SUV and calling him out to fight.

The 24-year-old man allegedly saw the man's son calling 911 on a cell phone and returned to his girlfriends house where deputies found him later.

Martinez appeared before Cameron County Magistrate Judge Patricia Edelstein on Saturday where he received $17,500 dollars in bonds.

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