On May 9, 2024, El Paso News received a tip from a reader alerting us to an event that transpired on April 22, 2024 involving county judge Ricardo Samaniego. The reader advised us that Samaniego missed that day’s county commissioners meeting because of a matter involving law enforcement. The reader provided us the address where law enforcement was responding to. Based on this information we filed a Texas Public Information Act request asking for law enforcement records for that day at the address we were provided.