Two of San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers' former deputies said they tried to get the Texas Rangers to look into wrongdoing in the sheriff's office when they worked there, but the state's elite investigative agency did little to pursue a case.
DALLAS — A Texas sheriff who's been the subject of years of complaints about dysfunction and corruption was repeatedly reported to state and federal law enforcement by his own deputies — yet an outside investigation never gained momentum, according to interviews and records reviewed by The Associated Press.
The consultant's report says Capers fostered a “fear-based” culture, oversaw the improper seizure of tens of thousands of dollars of property and that his deputies failed to follow up on reports of 4,000 crimes The small, Houston-area sheriff's office drew national scrutiny amid a four-day search for a man accused of killing five neighbors in April when they complained that his late-night shooting was . The sheriff’s office disclosed in response to AP's questions that deputies took nearly four times as long as Capers initially said to arrive at the mass shooting.
Capers did not respond to requests for comment. His second-in-command previously called the accusations against the sheriff “straight-up lies,” stressed their “good working relationship” with the Rangers and said the state agency is welcome to investigate their office "top to bottom.”Flynt, a veteran Houston-area officer who Capers personally recruited, said he drove to the regional state police office in the fall of 2017.
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