Texas Deputy Fired After Robbery Suspect's Escape to Top of Moving Patrol Car
By Hannah Ortega
The Dallas Morning News
July 31, 2018
A deputy has been fired after a robbery suspect broke out of a patrol car and rode on its roof on a highway last week.
Sgt. Cliff Griffin, a Taylor County Sheriff's Office spokesman, said in an email to the Abilene Reporter News that the deputy was fired “for violating Taylor County Sheriff’s Office policies concerning the safety and security of the inmate.” Griffin did not name the deputy.
The inmate, 31-year-old Martin Gregory Estrada of Abilene, is believed to have broken free of his handcuffs and used them to shatter one of the patrol car’s windows while on U.S. Highway 277 in Archer County. He was being transferred from Wichita Falls to Abilene.
Estrada threatened suicide after climbing out the window and sitting atop the car’s roof. Wichita County deputies were called in for backup, and the man was taken back into custody once the patrol car pulled over.
Estrada faces five counts of evading arrest, one count of aggravated robbery, one count of robbery, two counts of possession of methamphetamine and one count of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. He remained in the Taylor County jail Tuesday, with bail set at $680,000.
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