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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Mechanic claims he was falsely accused of stealing officer's car - KRIS 6 News Corpus Christi

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Corpus Christi mechanic accused a local police officer of not paying for thousands of dollars of repairs he claims he made to the officer’s car.

And that’s not all.

Bryant Johnson of Redline Automotive says Odem Police Department Sgt. Michael Cantu then tried to have Corpus Christi Police arrest him for supposedly stealing that car.

“I asked them what they were doing, and they told me, ‘Do you own this car?" Johnson said while detailing the conversation he says he had with CCPD officers. "And I told them, ’No, it’s a customer’s car, and they’re picking it up tomorrow.’ He said, ‘Well, the customer called this car in stolen.’ And I told him, ’No, that can’t be true, because I have all my paperwork and so forth.”

That paperwork includes an invoice Johnson claims to have filled out that lists $4,726.50 worth of parts and labor for repairs on a car supposedly belonging to Cantu.

Multiple attempts to make contact with Cantu were unsuccessful, and Odem Police Chief Gerardo Ochoa didn’t want to comment on what he called a personal — not a police — matter.

Ochoa, who hired Cantu in July of 2020, was also reluctant to discuss two alleged incidents involving Cantu while he worked for previous employers.

Cantu resigned as Driscoll Police Chief in June of 2016 during an investigation into allegations he stole drugs from a locker at the police station....



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