A Texas City staffer has actually been apprehended after authorities stated he impersonated a city board member.
Derek Miller, a member of the Texas City interactions and marketing group, has actually been charged with the online impersonation of Joseph Lowry, a La Marque city board member.
Miller was apprehended Tuesday on a third-degree felony. Court files declared Miller started composing Facebook posts from a profile impersonating the councilman.
The posts were mainly favorable and enhanced Texas City authorities who had stress with Lowry.
When inquired about the arrest, the councilman informed ABC13, “I have actually never ever fulfilled Derek Miller. I have actually never ever, to my understanding, had a discussion with him.”
Previously today, Lowry’s city board associates gone over censoring the councilman, who has actually ended up being the topic of numerous current scandals.
A lawyer representing Texas City Supervisor J.B. Pritchett sent out Lowry a stop and desist, implicating him of online harassment and libel, the television station reported.
Lowry informed a press reporter at the station that some individuals disagree with his mindset. “I’m a critic, so they obstruct me on social networks,” he stated, declaring he was when obstructed from the City of Texas City Facebook page.
At one point, the press reporter asked Lowry if he felt “the method (he) engages with individuals ever crosses the line to harassment?” and he responded, “Not. As a reporter, you’re enabled to ask concerns. As a chosen authorities, you’re enabled to ask concerns, and I do not mind asking the difficult concerns.”
Lowry stated the experience “seems like a Netflix film.”