TERRELL, Texas — A felon was arrested on a weapons charge following a warrant execution on Friday.
TERRELL, Texas — A felon was arrested on a weapons charge following a warrant execution on Friday.
At approximately 6 p.m. on Friday, July 21, 2017, Terrell Police Department narcotics investigators and members of its SWAT team executed the warrant at a residence and attached body shop in the 17000 block of South Farm-to-Market (FM) 429. They are assisted by Forney Police Department officers and Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office deputies.
Arrested was 37-year-old Cecil Ray Sanchez Vega.
Officers located a pipe with suspected drug residue inside the bowl near Vega’s medication in his bedroom and a Hi-Point 9mm handgun on the roof of a silver Olds Mobile in the shop area where Vega works on cars, according to Terrell Police Department Captain A.D. Sansom. The gun had eight live rounds in its magazine.
“Vega is a convicted felon and shall not possess a firearm at his residence until after the fifth year of adjudication of his offense,” stated Sansom.
Officers seized the glass pipe, three empty plastic baggies, the handgun, and 13 unknown blue pills from an orange bottle.
Vega was transported to the Terrell City Jail and was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by felon. He was later booked into the Kaufman County Jail on July 22 and released approximately four hours later after posting a $100,000 bond.
Vega’s criminal history in Kaufman County includes assaulting a public servant, failure to appear and violate promise to appear, manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 less than one gram, manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance in penalty group 1 greater than or equal to one gram in a drug free zone, and bail jumping.
