Teresa Todd is the city attorney for Maria, Texas and is the elected county attorney for Jeff Davis County. She was arrested in February for stopping to help some young adults in serious distress, including one with likely life-threatening problems.
Todd was flagged down by three young people on the side of the highway and after she got them into her car and started phoning and texting for help, a sheriff’s deputy drove up, followed by U.S. Border Patrol. They asked her to step out of her car, read her her Miranda rights, confiscated her phone, then hauled her to a holding cell.