Alexandra Smoots-Thomas, a suspended civil court judge in Houston, was arrested and charged after allegedly shooting at her estranged husband's girlfriend.
Smoots-Thomas was suspended last year after being charged with 10 counts of wire fraud for spending nearly $25,000 in campaign funds between January 2016 and March 2017. She is accused of spending the campaign funds on jewelry, luxury items, her mortgage payments, among other things. Despite the charges, Smoots-Thomas continued to campaign for re-election this year but lost in the Democratic primary runoff on July 14.
Now, Smoots-Thomas Now is facing felony charges after an incident at the home of her estranged husband's girlfriend. Investigators told ABC13 that Smoots-Thomas was in the woman’s driveway honking and causing a disturbance. The girlfriend came out of the house with a board to knock the gun Smoots-Thomas was pointing at her out of the judge's hand. When the girlfriend made the attempt to knock the gun away, Smoots-Thomas fired three times and fled the scene.
Smoots-Thomas’ attorney Kent Schaffer addressed the incident, stating, "My client was in a car and the other woman was outside the car. I believe she was carrying a club or some sort of stick with the intent to assault my client and a gun appeared. A shot was fired but nobody was hurt."
Smoots-Thomas was later arrested and charged on Wednesday (August 12) and held on a $10,000 bond.
Source: ABC 13
