{"id":11527,"date":"2020-04-23T17:44:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T17:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11527"},"modified":"2020-04-23T17:44:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T17:44:19","slug":"los-fresnos-pd-advises-citizens-to-follow-shelter-in-place-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=11527","title":{"rendered":"Los Fresnos PD advises citizens to follow shelter-in-place orders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/County-orders-art.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11522\"\/><figcaption><strong><em>Traffic has been light along Highway 100 as motorists have been following the shelter-in-place and curfew orders. <\/em><\/strong>Photo: Tony Vindell \/ LFN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By TONY VINDELL<\/strong><br>LFN<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LOS FRESNOS &#8211; Since failing to follow the measures issued by county judges to stop the spread of the coronavirus carries a fine of up to $1,000 or up to 180 days in jail, Los Fresnos police are urging residents to abide by the regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police Chief Hector Gonzalez said his officers have been passing out flyers during traffic stops to educate people on the mandatory shelter-in-place and other orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest measure issued by Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino Jr., instructs people to wear face masks whenever they are out in public.<br>In spite of that, numerous warnings and citations have been issued from March to this past week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 53 citations and 439 warnings have been issued by police as of April 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Los Fresnos Mayor Polo Narvaez said residents should follow the orders.<br>\u201cWe are asking our officers to be lenient,\u201d he said. \u201cOn the other hand, we don\u2019t want people going around for no reason unless it\u2019s for something essential.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By TONY VINDELLLFN LOS FRESNOS &#8211; Since failing to follow the measures issued by county judges to stop the spread of the coronavirus carries a fine of up to $1,000 or up to 180 days in jail, Los Fresnos police are urging residents to abide by the regulations. Police Chief Hector Gonzalez said his officers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-11527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11528,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11527\/revisions\/11528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}