One week after an evidence technician with the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office noticed missing cash while handling a currency evidence box, the tech’s now former colleague is accused of stealing $28,576 and a gun storage box, according to an affidavit.
That tech is 36-year-old Raymondville resident Miguel David Soliz.
The new details indicate the technician who noticed the missing money ran an inquiry that revealed modifications to computerized evidence logs which triggered an internal investigation that Hidalgo County Sheriff J.E. “Eddie” Guerra learned about Friday.
By Monday, Soliz confessed and was under arrest, according to the affidavit.
During the investigation, authorities learned Soliz made the modifications to the logs, which are governmental records, by using various employee identifications to steal the cash.
Those modifications occurred between March 14 and May 20 for a total of 12 incidents, according to investigators.
“Sheriff’s Investigators met with Miguel David Soliz who provided a voluntary statement of accused, admitting to making changes to the computerized governmental logs and taking a gun storage box,” the affidavit stated.
The sheriff’s office executed a search warrant at Soliz’s residence and recovered current and the stolen gun storage box from a safe.
The affidavit does not specify how much currency investigators recovered.
Soliz is charged with 12 counts of tampering with a governmental record and one count of theft by a public servant.
He remains in the Hidalgo County Adult Detention Center on a total of $75,000 in bonds, records indicate.
