SAN ANTONIO – A suspect is behind bars after allegedly pretending to be a border patrol agent and threatening passing drivers with a firearm on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n
Just before 2:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve, police were called to the scene near the corner of West French Place and Grant Avenue, just north of Downtown.<\/p>\n
According to police, they had received multiple calls about a elderly man threatening passing motorists with a firearm.<\/p>\n
When olice arrived, they found 76-year-old Oswaldo Ponce and detained him as he was walking back to his residence.<\/p>\n
Investigators say that a firearm was located in the suspect’s possession, he had a nondescript badge on his belt, and he was wearing a hat that implied he was a border patrol agent.<\/p>\n
Witnesses told investigators that Ponce had walked up to several people who were driving past the location, pointed a firearm at them while threatening to shoot them, and demanded to see their “papers.”<\/p>\n
Police say that Ponce appeared to have been having a mental health crisis. He was arrested and charged with Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, as well as Impersonating a Public Servant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – A suspect is behind bars after allegedly pretending to be a border patrol agent and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":473589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-473588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115787972314400319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}