Mark Anthony Aguirre is accused of causing an accident and holding an innocent man at gunpoint while trying to prove voter fraud.
HOUSTON — A former Houston Police Department captain accused of causing an accident and holding a man at gunpoint has been indicted by a Harris County grand jury.
Mark Anthony Aguirre is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony.
The indictment comes a year after his arrest in connection with the alleged incident.
According to court documents, Aguirre told police shortly after the Oct. 19 incident that he was part of a group of private citizens called “Liberty Center,” who were conducting a civilian investigation into an alleged ballot scheme.
Aguirre told investigators he had been conducting surveillance on the victim for four days under a theory the victim was the mastermind of a giant fraud, and there were 750,000 fraudulent ballots in a truck he was driving.
Instead, the victim turned out to be an innocent air conditioner repairman.
According to the documents, Aguirre ran his SUV into the back of the truck to get the repairman to stop and get out. When the technician got out of the truck, Aguirre pointed a handgun at him, forced him to the ground, where Aguirre reportedly put his knee on the man’s back. The incident was captured on the body-worn camera of a police officer.
Aguirre directed police to a parking lot nearby where another suspect, who has not been identified, took the truck, investigators said....
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