Robstown, Texas
A Nueces County deputy constable had the opportunity to be a guest at the jail on Monday, after his arrest on retaliation charges is out on bond. Robstown Police say he assaulted his common-law wife on Saturday.
The deputy constable has been identified as 54-year-old Ben Zapata, Jr. He was arrested Monday at his home in the 500 block of Iowa.
According to the arrest affidavit, a warrant was issued after Zapata’s common-law wife Oralia Cuellar said he punched her in the mouth and dragged her by her hair on Saturday. The woman, according to investigators, confronted him about coming home from work in a bad mood on Saturday.
Zapata is facing retaliation charges because he was allegedly harassing her as she filed assault charges against him. According to court documents, while Cuellar was at the Robstown Police Department, Zapata called her 56 times in the hour that she was talking to detectives.
Cuellar sent him a text message telling him that was enough and that he was harassing her. And this isn’t the first incident of abuse, according to court documents. According to the affidavit, Cuellar says Zapata threatened her and says “I might as well kill you now and get it over with” she says that’s when he walked out of the home and acted as though he had a gun in his hand. Lt. Gilbert Gomez of Robstown P.D. says punishment or termination with the Precinct 5 Constables will be assessed by that department.
LT. Gomez said Cuellar was pretty “banged-up.” Detectives also witnessed the dozens of phone calls that came from “Ben” while they were taking the woman’s statement.
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