BOIL, BOIL, TOIL AND TROUBLE FOR CHEEZMEHnation

By Juan Montoya
What started out as a half-hearted attempt by the head of a self-described community grassroots group to make light of the Brownsville Police Dept. filing charges against an 18-year-old man trying to extort a 16-year-old girl into sending him pictures of her nude, has backfired on the group and its followers.
After Rachel Arellano, the suspect's mother, went on a Facebook page defending her son's actions and taking a "boys will be boys" attitude on the case, Head Cheez Erasmo Castro followed up with a tongue-in-cheek defense saying that perhaps it was the use of marijuana by the suspect that had made him do it.
That didn't go over very well and in the cyberdin that followed, remonstrations against the Cheezmeh page posting in defense of the man made up the majority of the comments.
Police jailed 18-year-old Ricardo Ray Chavira III, of Brownsville and a judge set a $100,000 bail bond.
His mother quickly posted through the Cheezmeh web site that her little boy had been ensnared by the wiles of a 16-year-old girl that had sent her son nude pictures of herself. When he again solicited her to email her more pictures, her mother discovered them and reported him to police.
Arellano at once went on the offensive and said the victim "sent him nasty pictures, the mom found out, and took her phone. He texted her asking her for another one and she made a report. People love drama. These are the facts. Never get involved with a dirty hoe (whore)."
This kind of blaming the victim didn't go over well with the majority of folks who visited the website of a local broadcaster and our own blog, with the majority asking the mother to have her son face the gravity of his actions and the effect upon the victim. A later report indicated that the man had threatened the 16-year-old with posting her nude pictures on Facebook if she didn't send him more.
In an effort to come to the support of his Cheezmeh "friend, Castro posted the message: "You see what marijuana does?"
Arellano quickly went on to make things worse by insinuating that she had talked to PD detectives who "knew the real story" and had gone to talk to the girl's family to defuse the issue.
"Love makes you do stupid shit...He will get the chankla at home...
Well, for the better part of the weekend it has been a sanctimonious posting of sermons and benedictions on the part of the Head Cheez. In keeping with the season of sacrifice and resurrection, Erasmo – who is a fervid student and advocate of theology – has pledged to pray for all, including the sinners on this blog, to have the Almighty show us the light of forgiveness.
And just as we were all feeling warm and fuzzy now that we had received the benediction, we get another news flash of another alleged pedophile caught by a state trooper with pornographic photos of minors on his cell phone. This stuff is really going around, isn't it?
Judging by the tattoos on the alleged perpetrator, it is possible he has used marijuana. Should his mommy and Cheezmeh also dismisshis case as youthful indiscretions and come to his defense because he just might have smoked pot and that drove him to it?
 Whether the Cameron County District Attorney's office will be as forgiving in both of theses cases is left for time to determine.