The Galveston County Daily News

LEAGUE CITY — A man charged with killing his infant son and thought to have fled to Mexico was captured Sunday by Harris County constable deputies, officials said.

That was welcomed news for League City police, who have been searching for Jose Isaias Herrera, 18, since he was indicted in December.

Herrera was arrested by a Harris County Constable Precinct 6 deputy Sunday night, spokesman Danny Perez said. Cpl. Juan Pedraza was on patrol in Ingrando Park in southeast Houston when he noticed several men gathered at the back.

When Pedraza approached the men, one of them took off on foot, Perez said.

The deputy accused Herrera of attempting to flee. He initially was charged with evading arrest.

While he was being booked in the Harris County jail, the warrant for his arrest in the Galveston County murder case came to light.

On Oct. 27, 2008, police were called to a home in the 400 block of Folk Crest Lane where the parents told police they woke up and found 6-week-old Jose Herrera Jr. not breathing. League City Police Sgt. David Hausam said the medical examiner quickly ruled the case a homicide after “he found that the baby’s back had been broken and other signs of physical abuse.”

Family and friends said Herrera had family in Mexico where they thought he was hiding, Hausam said.

Recently, though, police got tips that Herrera was hiding out in the Pearland area.

“We had a lot of agencies looking for him,” Hausam said.

Herrera and Jessica Marie Treviño, 18, the infant’s mother, were charged with the boy’s death.

Herrera was charged with capital murder, while Treviño was charged with injury to a child and remains in the Galveston County jail awaiting trial on $150,000 bond.

Herrera was being held in Harris County Jail without bond.

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