RSO Temporarily Snags Cushy Police Support Gig

Bexar County, Texas has egg on its face after escorting a convicted sex offender into the search for a missing woman and her son.  (The woman and child were tragically found dead.)

A man named Xavier Lopez is seen interacting with the Mobile Command Unit personnel while the family mourns nearby.  In the video at 3:11 he appears to have a badge on his belt while unloading his truck.

Lopez is a registered sex offender who pled guilty to Baby Reindeering somebody, assaulting an unconscious man, back in 2021.  He was given probation only for that.  Then he violated his conditions in 2023.  Probation was continued rather than sending him to prison for eight years.

Then he and a guy named Xavier Gonzalez formed a "nonprofit" called Statewide Emergency Response Team.  SERT is a commonly used acronym in public safety.  Counties commonly have SERT teams in an official capacity.   But he and Gonzalez (who I'm not so sure exists) created this "nonprofit" called SERT to provide refreshments for first responders at large scenes.  Basically outsourcing the water and porta-potties that the county needs to provide at a mass casualty incident and pretending they're not making money at it.  They knew to do this.  Makes me wonder how the two of them got this idea.  One of them must be a volunteer firefighter.

Anyway they dropped Lopez from co-owner on the paperwork and refiled it with only Gonzalez and a different company name, and it went through.  And then voila, he was delivering refreshments to the police as seen in this video for a much more lowkey sounding  outfit called Fire Scene Rehab.

Mr. Briggs from Fire Scene Rehab says he let Lopez go for "pushing himself" on four minor volunteers.  And that completes the circle of life, how and why exactly Lopez got involved in this.  Like Joe Kalady's interest in marching bands, I imagine Xavier Lopez probably loves fire stations where a lot of men are asleep.

Lopez denies any misconduct at Fire Scene Rehab.

Apparently while Lopez argues there's nothing in his conditions preventing him from entering a city park or being around children, because his offense didn't involve children, there's a city ordinance banning all sex offenders.  So that's a problem.

What Mr. Lopez doesn't understand is that he really could, and some would say should, be spending eight years in prison right now.  He's not entitled to be at any volunteer fire station or supporting any public safety agency in any way.  Those people maintain higher than average personal standards.

When I volunteered as a firefighter, even while employed as a county paramedic, I had to maintain a perfect driving record and pass a criminal background check, credit check, and drug screening the whole time.  I wasn't allowed to be a sex offender.  Right?  You're a rapist.  You already got your free walk.  Lower your expectations for how society will treat you now.  You don't get to be at the top echelons of respectability.