Battery and Resisting Law Enforcement

Armando Castillo
Alexis Barger

Marshall ​County Sheriff’s Department deputies were called to the Gatewood ​Mobile Home Park in LaPaz about a disturbance Wednesday, July 17 at 10:32 p.m. ET. Officers had been called there earlier involving the same ​men in an alleged verbal argument.


Armando Castillo, 26, was arrested on a preliminary charge of battery to the other man. Castillo allegedly resisted law enforcement and was intoxicated. He also had a warrant out of Marshall County for failure to appear.


A woman involved,​ identified as Alexis Barger, 26, gave officers false information about Castillo,​ due to a warrant for his arrest. She was also arrested on a preliminary charge of assisting a criminal.

Formal charges will be determined by the Marshall County Prosecutor’s Office.

Suspects are considered innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.