Hidalgo County History: 2009 Note: The opinion column (editorial) reprinted below was first published in The Advance Dec.2, 2009. It turned out to be amazingly prescient (call it luck), given how things would change completely inside the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office only three-to-five years later when federal investigators and prosecutors brought down the whole enchilada between 2012 and 2014.In December 2012, Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño’s son, Jonathan, and a cadre of local law enforcement, including, later, the head of the sheriff’s CrimeStoppers, were arrested, charged, and indicted for all sorts of drug-related crimes centered around: “conspiring to possess with ...