FORNEY, Texas — A Forney man has been sentenced to prison in a 2011 aggravated robbery, firearm theft, and shooting incident in which the man's friend was shot in the face.
FORNEY, Texas — A Forney man has been sentenced to prison in a 2011 aggravated robbery, firearm theft, and shooting incident in which the man's friend was shot in the face.
23-year-old Carlos Alberto Rivas pled guilty in October 2014 to two counts of aggravated robbery, theft of a firearm, and deadly conduct discharging a firearm. He received 10 years deferred adjudication for what could have resulted in two life sentences in prison.
According to police at the time, Rivas committed an aggravated robbery, then stole a firearm from a pickup truck, and went to a residence in Forney where he was showing the gun to a friend when it discharged — striking the friend in the face. Rivas drove his friend to an area hospital, stopping on U.S. Highway 80 to throw the stolen firearm into nearby water. The firearm was later recovered by a Texas Department of Public Safety dive team.
According to the state’s terms at the time of his pleading, Rivas received 10 years deferred adjudication on each charge for deadly conduct charge and both aggravated robbery charges, five years of deferred adjudication for the theft of a firearm charge, was ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to his friend, the shooting victim, ordered to serve 200 hours of community service on the deadly conduct and aggravated robbery charges, and ordered to pay restitution to the owner of the firearm.
During the course of his probation, according to an order for a motion to revoke filed in the case and obtained by inForney.com, Rivas violated his probation multiple times, failed multiple drug tests, failed to pay restitution, and was arrested on at least two separate occasions for drug-related offenses in Terrell and Forney.
The latest motion to revoke was filed in April 2018. On June 11, 2018, 422nd District Court Judge B. Michael Chitty amended his previous disposition in the case, adjudicated Rivas' guilt, and sentenced him to 10 years in prison for not fulfilling the terms of his probation. On July 5, 2018, Rivas was transferred to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Joe F Gurney Unit in Palestine, Texas. He will be eligible for parole on September 24, 2022, according to TDCJ records.