Lavaca County Sheriff
Arrest

LCSO busy conducting arrests last week

  • Roberto Salazar-Nunez
    Roberto Salazar-Nunez
  • Christine Olivo
    Christine Olivo
  • Travis Bingham
    Travis Bingham
  • Dalton Griffin
    Dalton Griffin
  • Jody Thompson
    Jody Thompson

    During the past week, the Lavaca County Sheriff ’s Office has been very busy conducting arrests.

    Last Friday, Aug. 22, the Texas Officer of Attorney General’s (OAG) Fugitive Apprehension Unit arrested Travis Bingham, a Lavaca County registered sex offender, in Houston.

    Bingham was arrested on outstanding arrest warrants issued in Lavaca County for Failure to Comply with Sex Offender Duty to Register.

    He was indicted in June of this year by the sitting Lavaca County Grand Jury for the offenses.

    The LCSO Criminal Investigation Division (CID) learned that Bingham had left Lavaca County and moved to the Houston area, so the LCSO investigator began working with OAG to assist with Bingham’s apprehension.

    Bingham was transferred to the LCSO jail where he remains on a $50,000 bond.

    On Tuesday, Aug. 26, LCSO deputies and the Flatonia Police Department took Dalton Griffin and Christine Olivo in custody on outstanding warrants for felony theft.

    Griffin and Olivo were indicted following an LCSO CID investigation into theft of culvert pipes taken from the Lavaca County Precinct 2 facility earlier this year.

    This investigation lasted several months and utilized multiple search warrants and other investigative techniques.

    Both defendants are currently in the Lavaca County jail awaiting magistration.

    Also later on Tuesday, Aug. 26, LCSO department deputies assisted with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in arresting Roberto Salazar-Nunez, who was found working in the Lavaca County area.

    Salazar-Nunez, who is a citizen and national of Mexico, was taken into custody for two outstanding arrest warrants that were issued in Lavaca County in February of 2022.

    The two warrants were for multiple counts of Indecency with a Child by Exposure and by Contact.

    It was also discovered that Salazar-Nunez had been previously deported from the United States and since that time re-entered the country and returned to Lavaca County.

    Salazar-Nunez is being held in the Lavaca County jail on a DHS Immigration Detainer and is awaiting magistration on criminal charges.

    On Wednesday morning, Aug. 27, Jody Mildred Thompson turned herself in to the Lavaca County Sheriff ’s Office on an outstanding warrant for her arrest.

    Thompson was booked into the jail and released a short time later on a $5,000 surety bond.

    Following a lengthy and exhaustive investigation conducted by an LCSO CID investigator, the facts and evidence gathered from the case were presented to the sitting Lavaca County Grand Jury.

    Following the presentation of the evidence, Jody Thompson was indicted for Theft of Property greater than or equal to $2,500 but less than $30,000, enhanced.

    Thompson served as the Ezzell ISD principal at the time of the alleged offense and the charge was enhanced due to Thompson serving in a position of a Public Servant at the time of the alleged offense.

    Thompson, who was held on a $5,000 bond, but since has bonded out, had her 2024-25 and 2025-26 contracts nullified due to lack of necessary administrative certifications at the May 12 Ezzell ISD Board of Trustees meeting.

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    Regarding these various arrests, all subjects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.