A visiting judge denied a request for a hearing to challenge the search warrant that resulted in the arrest of Brownsville’s former fire chief on theft charges.
In late December, former Brownsville Fire Chief Carlos Elizondo’s attorney, Eddie Lucio, filed a writ of habeas corpus challenging whether “good ground” existed for the issuance of a search warrant targeting Elizondo’s home. That court motion alleges that the investigator who prepared the warrant did not provide sufficient facts to establish probable cause and that 404th state District Judge Elia Cornejo-Lopez, who signed the warrant, was not neutral because of her relationship with the Brownsville Independent School District Board of Trustees.