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Page 2*Cedar Hill Today*Thursday, November 20, 2003
CEDAR HILL TODAY
Local restaurant owner charged Drags
with attempted sexual assault—
From Page 1
By KIRK DICKEY
News Editor
Local restaurateur Luis
Campuzano has been arrested
in connection with an attempted
sexual assault in his
Waxahachie restaurant:
Waxahachie police arrested
Campuzano, 32, of Dallas. Nov.
7 after an undercover operation
involving two police officers
posing as customers, Several
agencies took part in the sting,
which lasted about three weeks,
according to Waxahachie Police
Chief Bobby Whitmire.
The investigation began after
Waxahachie police received
complaints from women about
possible sexual assaults at the
restaurant, of which Campu-
zano is a co-owner.
“We had information that the
employees were doing improper
things," Whitmire said.
The alleged victims did not
want to press charges, so the
police department decided to do
an investigation of its own.
Whitmire was reluctant to
categorize the nature of the
attempted sexual assault.
Campuzano’s lawyer Mark
(iriffith said his client is inno-
cent of the charge and said that
the police officers participated
in “at least improper behavior
Now with
Unlimited nights and weekends
and potentially illegal behavior”
in their investigation. Griffith
also declined to go into detail
regarding the case, saying evi-
dence would be presented in a
court hearing at the Ellis
County Courthouse, Monday,
Nov. 24.
Whitmire denied any wrong-
doing on his detective’s part.
Griffith said the case should
be dismissed for lack of cause
to have Campuzano arrested. If
not, the bonds should be
reduced to a level that is reason-
able, rather than punitive, which
he believes is the case now.
Campuzano remains in
police custody at the Wayne
McCollum Detention Center in
Ellis County. He is being held
on $400,000 bond for four
charges of attempted sexual
assault. Two of the charges were
filed after Campuzano was
arrested and police asked for
other possible victims to come
forward. Whitmire said he did
not know if the two new alleged
victims had been part of the
group which talked to police
before the investigation.
“These two new charges
came about after the police
arrested him, plastered it on the
news and urged other people
who felt they might have been
violated to come forward,”
Griffith said. “It’s discouraging
for me, a lawyer who works in
the system, that the Waxahachie
Police Department would be
trying to convict someone in the
media when they know that
guilt or innocence is decided in
a courtroom.”
Campuzano is a part-owner
of restaurants in Cedar Hill and
Midlothian and worked in all of
them, according to Griffith.
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where students go following
expulsion. The district AEP is
an intermediate step.
Charles did not believe the
punishment for possessing
drugs was strict enough and
wished to make the punish-
ment for possession to manda-
tory expulsion and 90 days of
JJAEP.
“They both receive conse-
quences,” Gibson said. “If the
board believes they are equal
in offense, then there should
be equal consequences. Either
they should both go to DAEP
over here or they should both
go to JJAEP. Your staff
believes there is a difference
between either possessing or
using and providing it to oth-
ers.”
Gibson said the notion is
that if a person is distributing
— either giving, selling or oth-
erwise providing — drugs or
alcohol, that person is encour-
aging others to either possess
or use the substances. If a per-
son has possession or is using
by himself, it directly impacts
him, but does not have the
impact on others that distribu-
tion has.
Trustee Terrel Nemons said
he did not see a problem with
the code as it stood. He
believed the different offenses
deserved differing punishment
levels.
“They are really not the
same and that is why the pun-
ishment invoked is not the
same,” he said.
Trustee Randy Gaubert said
he agreed with Charles that the
punishments should be stricter.
Gaubert suggested looking at
60 days for possession and 90
days for distribution of drugs.
“We have a big problem and
we want to step up and send a
message,” he said.
School Bjoard President
Pam Frost said she does not
like sending children to JJAEP,
because it makes her feel like
they are giving up on them.
“I don’t like taking away
the opportunity to rehabilitate
a kid,” she said.
She said the district’s pro-
gram is better than the JJAEP
and that she would prefer the
district to work with the stu-
dents in-house rather than
shipping them to JJAEP.
Trustee Phyllis Stegner
agreed, saying she would like
to make sure the district makes
full use of its AEP program.
She wants to have results of
the program.
After about 20 minutes of
wrangling among the board-
members, Charles made a
motion to make expulsion
mandatory for drug posses-
sion. Trustee Dan Hernandez
seconded the motion so that it
could be voted on.
Charles voted in favor of
the motion with Gaubert
abstaining and the rest of the
board voting in opposition.
Preserve
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work on a combined trail sys-
tem.
Austin said his organiza-
tion will leave a “very small
footprint” on the land. A trail
system will allow visitors to
the canyon to walk through it
and enjoy its natural beauty.
Audubon Texas wants to
leave the open area as pristine
as it possibly can. To that end,
one of the pieces of land the
organization has acquired is
an four-acre site formerly
owned by AT&T. The site has
access to FM 1382, which
makes it attractive for the only
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building the organization is
planning. The group plans to
turn it or another potential site
into a nature center for people
to learn at.
That is good news for
CHISD Superintendent Jim
Gibson, who said there has
been dialogue between the
school district, Northwood
and Texas Audubon on how to
work cooperatively in the new
preserve.
“Where they have done that
across the country, it has
proven to be a great resource
for local schools,” he said.
“We certainly look forward to
that.”
There has been talk about
cooperatively working on
some environmental programs
through the ninth grade
school, which might one day
serve as a high school.
“1 don’t know of any
school districts that have got-
ten into courses focused
specifically on birds, but cer-
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sitize and educate youths who
are interested in environmen-
tal careers is good,” he said.
He said the Audubon
Society could bring in experts
to work with the school dis-
trict in the field and in presen-
tations.
The school district could
give back to the society in the
form of meeting space for
scheduled events, Gibson
said.
But he said the best thing
about the preserve will be that
it makes residents more aware
of the resources in the area.
“So many residents are not
making regular use of our
greatest resource, which is the
state park,” he said.
It remains to be seen if the
new wild area will tie into the
Cedar Ridge Preserve. Austin
said there is a possibility that
the Dogwood Canyon proper-
ty could do programming in
conjunction with the Cedar
Ridge Preserve, but that is
down the road.
“That is something that
since it is owned by the coun-
ty and the city, we would have
talk to them to see what they
want to happen there.”
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