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Former El Paso Officer Offered Plea Deal

Former Officer Alberto Madrid resigned after witnesses at a wedding said he stole a money box. Police said he tried to run over guests while making his getaway. That's why he's charged with aggravated robbery, a first degree felony.

Madrid didn't want to talk with us, but his attorney Danny Anchondo agreed to be interviewed. We asked him what he spoke to prosecutors about at the settlement conference.

"We're still negotiating. We're still talking about the case. We're still reviewing everything that the D.A. has and reviewing everything we have," he said.

They're also talking about a plea deal, and the District Attorney's Office says they already have an offer on the table. If Madrid pleads guilty, prosecutor's will ask the court to sentence him to five years in prison. We asked Anchondo if that's something his client is willing to accept.

"We consider everything. However, were still negotiating and talking to the D.A. and still presenting our case," he said.

In the meantime, the case is moving forward.

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She said the Legislature faces "a $27 billion shortfall created to a large extent by the 2007 Legislature's enactment of tax cuts that they couldn't pay for." That means an anticipated loss of $8.2 million to the county's budget, $46 million to the county Hospital District and $10.4 million to El Paso Mental Health Mental Retardation if the Legislature enacts the budget it's working on now. Counties in Texas are an extension of state government. Our authority is governed and our work is mandated by the constitution and the legislature, and local citizens turn to us for some of the most critical services in their lives. We handle birth, marriage, divorce and death certificates through our County Clerk, Delia Briones and court records through our District Clerk, Norma Favela. We deliver justice through our multiple Courts; we have 30 elected county and district courts, 10 appointed courts, and specialty dockets like the DWI Courts, the Veterans Court, the Mental Competence Court, Family Courts, Juvenile Courts, and for the first time, thanks to Judge Yahara Lisa Gutierrez, El Paso added a Protective Order Court. We keep our community safe through Sheriff Richard Wiles, his Department and jail; we promote mental health care through our contributions to El Paso MHMR, and through the courts, the jail, the hospital district emergency room and; and finally, we deliver indigent health care through our world class hospital district, University Medical Center. We fund all of that and still, El Paso County makes up only 13% of your property tax bill; 92% of our budget funds services mandated by the state of Texas and the essential departments that support delivery of those mandates. Our resources are limited: 75% of our budget is funded by local property taxes and sales taxes. We don't have the flexibility municipalities have in creating fees to help fund services, so we have to do a lot with very little. Despite that, we've kept your taxes stable - in fact, reducing them in some years - since I joined the County in 2007. County government is also a very complicated organization. We have incredible needs - for example, tremendous poverty in unincorporated areas where we are still working to get water and sewer hookups to our colonia residents - and a state government that provides us with few resources, allows us few tools, and that increasingly is shifting to local government the responsibility of paying for its own state responsibilities.

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