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A 25-year-old Brownsville man remains free on a $10,000 bond following his arrest on a bigamy charge.
Joshua Eduardo Rosales was already married to one woman when he married a second woman, said investigator Martin Sandoval, spokesman for the Brownsville Police Department.
A warrant for Rosales’ arrest had been issued and he was arrested Friday at the Gateway International Bridge in Brownsville.
Rosales’ first wife filed a police report on March 9 alleging he had forged signatures on divorce papers, Sandoval said.
“His second wife when she found out she actually provided the copy of the divorce decree and everything and that’s how they found out that the divorce decree was forged” Sandoval said.
In the state of Texas, a person commits bigamy “if he is legally married and he purports to marry or does marry a person other than his spouse in this state, or any other state or foreign country, under circumstances that would, but for the actor’s prior marriage, constitute a marriage,” according to the Texas Penal Code.
Bigamy is considered a third-degree felony and punishable by up to 10 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.
