The Frio County judge and several other former and current elected officials have been indicted and most of them arrested for alleged vote harvesting, the latest development in a multi-year investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The indictments of County Judge Rochelle Camacho, County Elections Administrator Carlos Segura, Pearsall City Councilmembers Ramiro Trevino and Racheal Garza, Pearsall ISD Trustee Adriann Ramirez, and alleged vote harvester Rosa Rodriguez followed a multi-year investigation by the state and Frio County District Attorney Audrey Louis.

A county judge and several other local officials in South Texas were indicted in connection with an alleged “vote harvesting scheme,” according to the state attorney general’s office. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a news release Wednesday that the indictments followed a yearslong election integrity investigation,