THAT YARD WORK DONE TO A FULL LOOK AT WHAT WE’RE EXPECTING OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. COMING
UP IN JUST A FEW.
>> THANKS ME. OF A SAN ANTONIO
WOMAN WHO PROVED A CONFIDENTIAL
INFORMANT PLANTED DRUGS IN HER
HOME LEADING TO ARREST IN 2017
IS NOW FIGHTING BACK. KSAT
INVESTIGATES HIGHLIGHTED THE
CASE AGAINST RUBY SANDOVAL LAST
YEAR IN AN HOUR-LONG SPECIAL
NECESSARY EVIL, THE COST OF
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS
SANIBEL’S FIGHT TO CLEAR HER
NAME UNCOVERED OTHER CASES
INVOLVING THE SAME INFORMANT
PLANNING LARGE AMOUNTS OF DRUGS
PRIOR TO DEPUTIES RAIDING A
LOCATION. SANDOVAL IS NOW SUING
THE COUNTY, THE SHERIFF, HIS
NARCOTICS DEPUTIES AND THE
INFORMANT IN FEDERAL COURT.
>> YES, MY FIGHT PROTEST SINCE
RUBY SANDOVAL IS TRYING TO
RECLAIM HER LIFE.
IT WAS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
NEARLY 6 YEARS AGO WHEN BEXAR
COUNTY NARCOTICS DEPUTIES
RAIDED HER HOME AND FOUND MORE
THAN 2 POUNDS OF METH. THIS
SEARCH WARRANT STATES
INFORMANTS A MASK INSIDE THE
HOME WITHIN THE PAST. 48 HOURS.
>> IT MENTIONS NOTHING ABOUT
WHERE THE DRUGS MAY BE LOCATED.
BUT WHEN DEPUTIES RAIDED HER
HOME, THEY SEEM TO KNOW EXACTLY
WHERE TO LOOK AND LOOK IN THE
DISCOURSE STRAIGHT TO THE BACK
ROOM.
>> AND THEY GET A HIT. I’M HERE
TO GET IT. AND THEY PICK PUT
CUFFS ON. DEPUTIES WENT
STRAIGHT TO A BOX IN THE BACK
OF SANDOVAL’S HOME THAT
CONTAINED THE DRUGS. YEARS
LATER, A SERIES OF TEXT
MESSAGES BETWEEN SANDOVAL, AN
INFORMANT WERE DISCOVERED.
>> THEY REVEALED THE MAN HAD
LEFT THE BOXES SANDOVAL’S HOME
BEFORE TIPPING OFF HIS BCSO
HANDLERS PROVING HE PLANTED
THE DRUGS. THE RAID HAPPENED IN
OCTOBER OF 2017 BUT SUNDEVILS
CASE WASN’T DISMISSED UNTIL MAY
OF 2021. SEVERAL MONTHS AFTER
INFORMATION PROVIDED BY
SANDOVAL LEAD TO THE
OVERTURNING OF CONVICTIONS FOR
3 OTHER PEOPLE WHO WERE ALSO
SET UP BY THE SAME INFORMANTS.
I DO FEEL THAT.
>> HE DID NOT ACT ALONE.
I FEEL THAT. UNFORTUNATELY,
THAT THE DEPUTIES INVOLVED.
>> AND WE PROVIDE WAS
COMPLETELY RUINED BY THIS
INFORMANT AND THE ACTIONS OF
BEXAR COUNTY LAST WEEK.
ATTORNEY JASON JACOB FILED THIS
CIVIL LAWSUIT IN FEDERAL COURT
ALLEGING A CONSPIRACY AGAINST
SANDOVAL THAT VIOLATED HER
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. THERE
APPEARS TO BE.
>> SOME SORT OF CONSPIRACY,
IF NOT. IF NOT, WITH THE PLAN
TO DRUGS FOR CERTAIN WITH THE
SITUATION OF NOT NOT MOVING TO
DISMISS THESE CASES AND INSTEAD
TO CONTINUE TO PROSECUTE A CASE
TO HIDE THE CASE FROM THE
PUBLIC AND TO HIDE THE CASE
FROM ANY TYPE OF OF
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THESE
OFFICERS. WELL, THE BEXAR
COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S
OFFICE HIGHLY PUBLICIZED ITS
CONVICTION, INTEGRITY UNIT
HELPING TO OVERTURN THE
CONVICTIONS OF JOHN CAPE AND
LOUIE GARCIA.
>> AND THE DISMISSAL OF THE
CASE AGAINST RICK SEE NOLAN
ON WAR AS WHO DIED WHILE
WAITING FOR HER NAME TO
BE CLEARED. JACOB SAYS
PROSECUTORS CONTINUE TO
PRESSURE SANDOVAL TO TAKE A
DEAL AND THE THREAT. MY CLIENT
WITH 15 TO LIFE. IF SHE DOESN’T
TAKE THE PLEA DEAL EVEN AFTER
THE FACT.
>> THAT IS WRONGFUL
PROSECUTION. YOU CAN’T.
TAKE RUBY SEEM TO FALL PAYING
AND PUT HER INTO A SITUATION
WHERE YOU DESTROY HER LIFE AND
THEN JUST SAY, OK, WELL, SORRY
AND NOTHING HAPPENS TO ME.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT’S WHAT THE
TERMS ARE FOR THE PAST 6 YEARS
HAS TAKEN A HEAVY TOLL ON SOUND
BALL.
>> I’M HOMELESS.
AND YOU THINK THAT’S A DIRECT
RESULT OF ALL OF YEAH. I MEAN,
I I KNOW
THE EMPLOYMENT CERTAINLY
IMPOSSIBLE.
YOU KNOW, BECAUSE AT THE TIME
OF RECORD STILL SINCE BEING
SET UP, SHE’S LOST HER HOME OR
TRUCK AND HER JOB, BUT SHE
HASN’T LOST THE WILL TO FIGHT
FOR JUSTICE. THEY DO THIS TO
PEOPLE ALL THE TIME.
UNFORTUNATELY.
>> I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE.
YOU KNOW, IT. I’M JUST THE ONLY
ONE THAT WAS ABLE TO TO SOMEHOW
RISE ABOVE IT. I JUST WANT MY
LIFE BACK TO WHERE IT WAS.
YOU KNOW.
>> IN HER SUIT, SANDOVAL IS
ASKING FOR AN UNSPECIFIED
AMOUNT OF MONEY IN DAMAGES.
THE BEXAR COUNTY SHERIFF’S
OFFICE DID NOT RESPOND TO
REQUESTS FOR COMMENT ON THE
LAWSUIT, BUT IN OUR SPECIAL
LAST YEAR, SHERIFF SALAZAR
DENIED ANY WRONGDOING BY HIS
AGENCY OR HIS DEPUTIES AND SAID
NO DEPUTIES HAD BEEN
DISCIPLINED IN CONNECTION WITH
THE CASE. IS WHILE THE
INFORMANT HAS NEVER BEEN
PROSECUTED FOR PLANNING THE
DRUGS IN THESE CASES, HE WAS
CONVICTED IN MARCH ON DRUG