Del Rio woman jailed after allegedly trying to hit two officers

A Del Rio search-warrant operation on East 10th Street escalated into a second violent felony case when Veronica Guadiana Vowell, 58, allegedly drove her gray Chevrolet Silverado toward two officers outside a residence in the 900 block.

Authorities said the officers were in uniform and working at the house Monday morning to execute a search warrant tied to the weekend shooting of a Del Rio police officer. According to the affidavit described in the case, the officers tried to stop the truck and ordered the driver to halt, but investigators said Vowell accelerated toward them. Both officers moved out of the way in time, and no one was injured.

Vowell was arrested in Del Rio on Monday, April 13, 2026, after the confrontation. Justice of the Peace Pct. 3 Pat Cole later set her bond at $1 million, divided as $500,000 on each of two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

The arrest immediately deepened a case that already had drawn intense attention in Del Rio. Vowell is the mother of Eric Anthony Castillo, the Del Rio man accused of shooting a police officer during the earlier confrontation. Sunday’s gunfire left one officer struck in the upper thigh, and investigators said the officer’s wallet stopped the bullet. Castillo later surrendered and faced five felony charges.

The Monday scene turned what had begun as one law-enforcement response into a broader criminal investigation with multiple defendants, separate assault allegations and a larger burden on local officers who had returned to the same neighborhood just one day later. The East 10th Street address became the center of a fast-moving sequence that moved from gunfire to a search warrant to a second alleged attack on police.

For residents near the 900 block of East 10th Street, the concern now extends beyond one arrest. The case has tied a single address to a shooting, an attempted vehicle assault and felony proceedings involving both Castillo and Vowell, all while Del Rio police continue sorting out the weekend violence and its consequences.