State vs. Steven Mitchell
Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon
Lead: Alicia Patterson
2nd Chair: Amanda Boylan
DA Investigators: Victor Vasquez & Rusty Taylor
Investigating Agency: Dallas Police Department
The defendant shot the victim, a childhood friend, during a dispute over utility bills. The bullet grazed the top of the victim’s head causing a laceration.
During the punishment phase, the jury learned that the defendant had completed probation for two aggravated assaults, assaulting a police officer, and evading arrest less than a year before he shot this victim. The State also presented evidence that the defendant filed false liens against his now-deceased mother’s property, forged his mother’s signature on house deeds, and wrote multiple checks from his mother’s account.
GUILTY and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
State vs. Pedro Galvan, Jr.
Indecency with a Child by Sexual Contact
Lead: Brenna Buchanan
2nd Chair: Kathryn Suggs
DA Investigator: Ryan Rodriguez
DA Victim Advocate: Pam Betts
Investigating Agency: Irving Police Department
The defendant was found guilty of Indecency with a Child by Sexual Contact.
GUILTY and defendant agreed to 2 years in prison and waiver of appeal.
State vs. Saul Sanchez
Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child under the age of 14
Lead: Kristen vanBolden
2nd Chair: Brenna Buchanan
DA Investigator: Natarsha Page
DA Victim Advocate: Yvonne Macias & Pam Betts
Investigating Agency: Dallas Police Department
The defendant was convicted of continually sexually abusing a child under the age of 14.
GUILTY and sentenced to LIFE in prison + a $10,000 fine.
State vs. Alejandro Garcia
Aggravated Assault of Security Officer
Lead: Amber Moore
2nd Chair: Marissa Trevino
DA Investigator: Tom Naulty
Investigating Agency: Dallas Police Department
On July 28, 2023, a store manager from one of the shops at a shopping center contacted security because people were drinking on the property. When the security officer asked them to leave, everyone left except the defendant, and he began insulting the security officer. The defendant eventually pulled out a knife and threatened to stab the security officer and moved toward him with a thrusting motion. Thinking quickly, the security officer pepper sprayed the defendant causing him to leave the scene. Officers arrested the defendant more than an hour later after he came back to the scene and continued to drink on the property.
During the punishment phase of the trial, the jury heard evidence of the defendant’s prior burglary of a habitation felony conviction, federal priors of illegal re-entry, and at the time of the offense it being at least his fourth time entering the country illegally.
GUILTY and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
