SAN ANTONIO – Former Bexar County Precinct 2 Constable Michelle Barrientes Vela was sentenced Wednesday to five years probation, 90 days in jail and 600 hours of community service. Barrientes Vela had ...

SAN ANTONIO — Michelle Barrientes Vela, the former Bexar County constable convicted of tampering with evidence last month, could find out her punishment this week. The jury spent several hours ...

BEXAR COUNTY, Texas — Michelle Barrientes Vela, the former Bexar County constable convicted of tampering with evidence several months ago, was sentenced to five years of probation by a judge Wednesday ...

Former Bexar County Constable Michelle Barrientes Vela was “a cancer to her own office,” a former lieutenant who worked for her said at her sentencing hearing Monday, detailing her interactions with ...

The much-delayed public corruption trial of former Bexar County Constable Michelle Barrientes Vela got underway Tuesday, but with little of the turmoil that marked much of her 33 months in office.