The Corpus Christi Police Department generated 284 reports for formal criminal complaints from midnight July 28 to 7:00 a.m. on .July 29, 2014. These are samples of the criminal complaints filed by the Corpus Christi Police for that time period.

“Bravo” District
Date: 07/28/2014 1:05 PM
Location: 6500 Ponil Creek Drive
Offense: Assault (PC 22.02 Second Degree Felony)
Case Number: 1407280105
A clerk at a convenience store located at Cimarron St. and Yorktown Rd. contacted Corpus Christi Police concerning a male with no shirt on who had come into the store with a large wrench claiming that he had been assaulted. The male who appeared to be under the influence of a drug was also refusing to leave the store. Officers arrived and contacted suspect, Johnathan Cardwell (03/11/1987). While speaking to the suspect, officers became aware of another disturbance that the suspect had been involved in at another location. Officers went to a home in the 6500 block of Ponil Creek and there they met with two males that worked with the suspect. According to them, they were having a meeting and one of the males got into an argument with the suspect. The male stepped outside of the house and the suspect took the large wrench and struck the male in the back of his left shoulder and ran off. The suspect was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second degree felony. CCFD EMS responded and treated the victim at the scene for injuries to his back and shoulder.

“Delta” District
Date: 07/28/2014 8:45 PM
Location: 200 South Alameda Street
Offense: Assault (PC 22.02 Second Degree Felony)
Case Number: 1407280171
A 60 year old male victim reported to Corpus Christi Police that he was walking in the 200 block of S. Alameda St. when a Hispanic male ran up to him yelling and struck him in the back of the head twice with a square shaped rock, possibly a cinder block. The victim told police that he was attacked because he was white. The victim was transported to the hospital by CCFD EMS to be treated for his head injuries. A little while later, officers were called to a business located in the 300 block of N. Staples St. for a male beating on the side of the building. The description matched the one of the suspect that had just assaulted the victim with the rock. Officers arrived and located, John Villalpando (12/05/1964) and identified him as the earlier assailant and he was arrested for aggravated assault, a second degree felony.

“Delta” District
Date: 07/28/2014 7:55 PM
Location: 3800 Argus Court
Offense: Retaliation (PC 36.06 Third Degree Felony)
Case Number: 1407280168
Corpus Christi Police Officers responded to an apartment located in the 3800 block of Argus Court for a male suspect breaking windows. Officers were told by a 21 year old female that an ex-boyfriend, had showed up at her home and started breaking windows because she had filed assault charges on him earlier that day. The suspect fled prior to police arrival. As officers were speaking to the female the suspect called her and officers heard him make threats to harm the female and even said he would come over after the officers left. The officers then drove around the apartment complex trying to locate the suspect and found him. When the suspect saw the officers, he ran and was seen going into the back door of an apartment located in the 3700 block of Itaska Court. A 29 year old female came out the door and said that she did not know the suspect and that she had children still in the house. Officers entered the apartment and observed the suspect running up the stairs. The suspect was seen jumping out the side window and started running again towards Port Ave. Officers were able to catch up to Roland Rodela (01/19/1981), and he was charged with criminal mischief for breaking the glass windows, criminal trespass, for entering the apartment on Itaska Court, evading arrest for running on foot from the officers. He was also charged with retaliation, a third degree felony for the threating the female who had reported him in the earlier assault

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