The sentencing phase for Michelle Barrientes Vela began Monday. She faces up to 10 years in prison.
was “a cancer to her own office,” a former lieutenant who worked for her said at her sentencing hearing Monday, detailing her interactions with two of her deputies who had accused her of harrassment and retaliation.
A jury on Sept. 1 found Vela, 48, guilty of two counts of tampering with evidence related to a shakedown of a San Antonio family on Easter Sunday in 2019 at a West Side park.Prosecutor: We’ll drop park shakedown charges after ex-Bexar constable Michelle Vela is sentenced Convicted ex-constable Michelle Barrientes Vela confers with her attorney, Jason Goss, during her sentencing hearing Monday. A jury this month convicted Vela of two counts of tampering with evidence.The jury was not allowed to hear that Vela had been charged with three counts of official oppression, a Class A misdemeanor, but they can be taken into consideration for punishment.
Questioned by prosecutors Dawn McCraw and Oscar Salinas, he testified about Leonicio Barrera Moreno, one of Vela’s deputies who filed a federal complaint alleging hazing — citing laughter during his swearing-in ceremony — and harassment and retaliation because he said Vela forced him to work security for the Precinct 2 justice of the peace courtroom.At the sentencing hearing for convicted ex-constable Michelle Barrientes Vela, defense attorney Jason Goss questions former Lt.
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