{"id":490670,"date":"2026-01-04T01:22:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490670\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:22:40","slug":"attorney-says-harris-county-treasurers-behavior-was-unusual-but-had-no-intention-to-commit-a-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490670\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney says Harris County treasurer\u2019s behavior was \u2018unusual\u2019 but had \u2018no intention to commit a theft\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 The attorney for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Carla_Wyatt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/Carla_Wyatt\/\">Harris County Treasurer Carla Wyatt,<\/a> who is accused of breaking into a vehicle, speaks on her behavior during the time of the crime after her first court hearing Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Wyatt has been charged with burglary of a motor vehicle, a misdemeanor. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Documents allege she was found sitting inside a vehicle outside a lounge and bar called Forget Me Not and refused to leave. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Attorney Christopher Downey agrees Wyatt\u2019s behavior was unusual but says she did not commit a crime. <\/p>\n<p>Jan 2, 2026: Harris County Treasurer Dr Carla Wyatt (R) with her attorney, Christopher Downey in court after her arrest on misdemeanor theft charges. (Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Downey says during the hearing, there was not enough information for the judge to decide if they case should move forward. Wyatt\u2019s next hearing has been set for Jan. 26, where they will come back and determine her case.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI\u2019m confident that once we do that, that everybody will understand that there was absolutely no intention to commit a theft. And that this was a circumstance where, although some unusual behavior occurred, no criminal behavior occurred,\u201d Downey said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He said Wyatt was seated in a car that belonged to someone else, but under the criminal code, that, in itself is not an act of theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s very important to understand that\u2014the act of theft only occurs when you commit behavior with the intention to commit a crime and that didn\u2019t happen in this case,\u201d Downey said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 The attorney for Harris County Treasurer Carla Wyatt, who is accused of breaking into a vehicle,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":490671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[221262,4219,6386,4345,425,50,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-490670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-carla-wyatt","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-harris-county","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-local","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115834214825075407","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490670","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=490670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}