BEXAR COUNTY, Texas – Erik Cantu, who has been arrested six times since he survived being shot by a police officer in 2022, was expected to make his second court appearance in two days related to a motion to revoke his probation.
Instead, Cantu will return to the county’s 187th Criminal District Court at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
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The reason for the added delay: Charles Bunk, the attorney representing Cantu, said an important defense witness was not present in court. Judge Stephanie Boyd, who presides over the court, granted the defense’s request.
The continuation of Cantu’s hearing was originally scheduled to resume at 10 a.m. Tuesday after initially beginning on Monday.
Boyd did not decide on whether to revoke Cantu’s probation during the Monday hearing. Prosecutors presented hours of evidence with Cantu’s ex-girlfriend, Emily Proulx, among the witnesses who testified.
Cantu, 21, is accused of breaking into Proulx’s home in early December and stealing her tablet. Proulx has since asked the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office to drop the burglary charge.
During Monday’s hearing, GPS evidence and testimony from a Bexar County sheriff’s deputy assigned to monitor Cantu’s house arrest device indicated Cantu was at Proulx’s apartment while on house arrest.
His burglary arrest triggered Wednesday’s hearing, since Cantu was on probation and under GPS monitoring in a pair of evading arrest cases.
Cantu’s early December arrest was his latest brush with the law since he was shot multiple times in 2022 by ex-San Antonio police officer James Brennand in a McDonald’s parking lot.
The burglary incident happened less than a month after Cantu was sentenced to eight years of probation for violating the terms of his probation from two evading arrest cases last year.
After Cantu’s arrest, prosecutors moved to revoke his probation.
Brennand, who has been charged with aggravated assault by a public servant, is scheduled to next appear in court in mid-April.
Cantu faces up to six years in prison.
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