Odessa Teen Arrested For Aggravated Assault
By: Dylan Brooks
Updated: November 17, 2010
ODESSA-- A teenager who Odessa Police accused of causing a crash has been arrested.
Elvis Ortiz, 17, turned himself in yesterday and bonded out that same day. Police say he was driving without a seatbelt on South Dixie on November 2nd. When an officer tried to pull him over, he accelerated, lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a car driven by 44 year old Trinidad Mermella. Mermella's car was then sent into two parked cars.
Ortiz is charged with aggravated assault for the incident.


