Authorities arrested a juvenile Tuesday who’s been committing crimes and sharing video of them on social media while taunting the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Javier Salazar
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A few weeks ago, the 15-year-old suspect shared a clip of himself cutting off what appears to be an ankle monitor in the parking lot of Northside Independent School District’s Warren High School. In the social media post, he tagged Salazar, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office and a handful of San Antonio news outlets. The video is captioned “TELL GANG UNIT TO KATCH ME.”
The teen had an ankle monitor stemming from a robbery in Austin, according to Salazar.
In a followup video, the teen filmed himself trying to burglarize a marked Texas Department of Public Safety vehicle at a state trooper’s home in Pflugerville, Salazar said. Once again, the young suspect allegedly posted the clip on social media, tagging and taunting law enforcement.
“I was fully expecting that [the suspect] was using a fake name,” Salazar said during Tuesday’s press conference. “Nope, as it turns out, not only did he tag all of us, but he showed his face in the videos, and he used his real name, so it wasn’t very hard to track him down.”