Sixth person arrested for "fight club" at Texas state school

From the Caller-Times in Corpus Christi, Texas:

CORPUS CHRISTI — The sixth person charged in suspicion of staging fight-club style brawls between patients at Corpus Christi State School was arrested April 3 in South Carolina.

U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested D’Angelo Riley, 22, (pictured) on a warrant for injury to a disabled person. Riley was taken into custody at 5:45 a.m. at a relative’s home in Charleston, S.C.

He is being held in the Charleston County Detention Center, awaiting extradition to Nueces County. His bond is set at $30,000.

A warrant was issued March 12 for Riley and five others after a cell phone was turned over to authorities showing employees at the school encouraging and videotaping residents with mental disabilities punching, wrestling and choking each other.

Riley is accused in an arrest affidavit of kicking one of the residents during a fight.

Riley resigned from his job at the state school in June, State Department of Aging and Disability Services spokeswoman Cecilia Fedorov said.

The other five people charged were arrested and bonded out of jail.

Jesse Salazar, 25; Guadalupe Delarosa Jr., 21; Vince P. Johnson, 22; and Timothy Dixon, 30; all were charged with injury to a disabled person, a third-degree felony. Stephanie N. Garza, 21, accused of watching the fights and failing to intervene, was charged with a state jail felony.

Corpus Christi police said the incidents may have gone on for as long as a year. Police said the criminal investigation is ongoing, and more arrests are possible.