Navarro faces options, trial or plea agreement

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A jury trial might get started in about two weeks for former Hidalgo county elections, Teresa Navarro, that’s if she doesn’t reach a plea deal with prosecutors in a case where she’s facing charges of theft, document tampering and engaging in organized criminal activity

While Navarro maintains her innocence, Am ado Cavazos, one of three other county employees involved in similar accusations, accepts a plea bargain — he gets a one year deferred adjudication, is ordered to pay about $2-thousand dollars in restitution, and 240 community service hours.

In a report-released march of 2008, the county auditor detailed several instances of receipt discrepancies, questionable travel records and problems in credit card expenditures —

The former county election department employees are believed to have made more than 50 personal purchases on their work credit cards, but the total alleged fraud reaches about more than $30-thousand dollars.