Rio Grande Valley mayor arrested on vote fraud charges

Brownsville Herald:

Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and his wife Dalia Molina have turned themselves in to authorities after warrants were issued for their arrests on illegal voting charges stemming from the city’s November 2017 election, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the case.

The Molinas are expected to be arraigned later today on multiple charges.

The Edinburg mayor has been dogged by allegations of engaging in and encouraging voter fraud ever since he won the election in November 2017.

Such speculation was only heightened by the arrest of more than a dozen people on illegal voting charges over the course of the last year as part of a Texas Attorney General’s office investigation into what Attorney General Ken Paxton has called an organized illegal voting scheme.

Molina unseated Richard Garcia for the mayoral office in that election by 1,240 votes, which Molina’s critics allege were cast by people who were not Edinburg residents.
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Fifteen others have been arrested so far in the investigation.  Four of the fifteen registered to vote at an apartment complex owned by the mayor where they did not live.  Questionable voting has been a concern in other races in the Valley where it has been alleged that some votes were secured by offering items to voters.  Most of those races were for local officials.

Molina denies the charges.  The article does not give party affiliation but most public officials in the Valley tend to be Democrats.