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Another residence's electricity cut
Published July 30, 2010
Sheriff’s office deputies were dispatched to the vega Wednesday morning after a resident having the electricity cut off to his home allegedly met the county health inspector with a pistol.
“He never warned me or told me nothing,” an angry Michael Goodwin said as he faced Roger Cerny, Val Verde County health inspector and loss prevention officer, Cerny’s assistant, two sheriff’s office deputies and two AEP workers outside his residence on Vega Verde Road Wednesday morning.
The house where Goodwin said he has lived for 15 years is one of nine slated to have its electricity shut off until residents comply with state law requiring an on-site potable water source and an approved on-site sewage facility.
Though the sheriff’s deputies standing by at the Goodwin residence Wednesday morning would only say they were present to “conserve the peace,” Cerny claimed when he arrived at the residence with his assistant and an AEP crew, Goodwin was holding a pistol.
“He walked out of the house with a pistol,” Cerny said. The county health inspector confirmed he then called the sheriff’s office.
Cerny said when the sheriff’s office deputies arrived, Goodwin no longer had the gun.
Cerny and Goodwin confronted each other across the fence around Goodwin’s home, but Cerny walked away when Goodwin began accusing Cerny of criminal acts.
“I don’t have time for this,” Cerny said.
The county health inspector said electricity has been shut off to a total of nine residences on the vega not in compliance with state law regarding potable water sources and on-site sewage facilities.
Cerny and the AEP crew, trailed by the sheriff’s deputies, cut electricity at several more residences after they left the Goodwin property Wednesday morning.
Standing outside the Robert Jump property, Cerny explained, “We are shutting off the electricity until we come into compliance here. All they have to do is come into compliance.”
Cerny reiterated that electricity is being cut to residences that incurred damage from the flooding Rio Grande earlier this month. “These decisions were made after conferring with the folks from (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) and (the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) based on the amount of water and the extent of the damage to the strucrures,” Cerny said.
He said the situation is different that following the last major flood of the Rio Grande in 2008 because “there was no damage to actual residences in 2008.”
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