Trusted municipal workers and the veil of innocence of youth were torn asunder this week, the former in San Antonio, Texas, the latter in Kildare, Ireland, proving yet again that the impulse to unburden others from their possessions knows no age or border. A San Antonio municipal court employee found himself on the wrong side of the law after an investigation into a minor traffic mishap revealed a far more thieving subplot, according to KSAT. Luis Cazares, who had dutifully served as a warrant officer, stands accused of stealing a woman's wallet in a supermarket caper that would conclude with his arrest.
His capture came about whilst reporting a passenger-side kiss from an unknown vehicle while laid bare in a body shop, the collision left his car bruised and Cazares seeking justice, ironically, his hopeful report to the San Antonio police would unravel to show an outstanding theft warrant for the selfsame public servant. Cazares, as the city confirmed, is no longer within its employ, his resignation the coda to a livelihood in law enforcement—a swift curtain drop following KSAT's inquiries into his professional standing after his arrest.
Across the Atlantic, youthful folly found its bounds in the Maynooth and Celbridge locales of Co Kildare where two teenagers, veering far from boyish pranks, amassed a staggering tally of 19 charges, "arising from several incidents," per a detailed account on Seniorpreneur. The young men, whose identities the law enfolds from public scrutiny, played their own hand at disrupting the car-to-owner sanctity—relieving vehicles of their insides and of their auto duty altogether, with actions levying the weight of potential fraud upon them.
Rounding out a week where the ethos of integrity found itself tested, by young and old alike, both the story of the San Antonio warrant officer and the Irish teenage pair stand a testament to the indiscriminate nature of temptation. A woman's cart-affixed purse being plucked, days later two Irish juveniles in a series of vehicular and fraudulent misconduct find their way into custody; both narratives injecting the discourse of society's guardianship with a measure of doubt, leaving communities wrestling with the question of who watches the watchmen—and indeed, their children.
