Maycol Douglas Lagos-Valladares v. State ( 2019 )


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  •                                     In The
    Court of Appeals
    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
    __________________
    NO. 09-17-00493-CR
    __________________
    MAYCOL DOUGLAS LAGOS-VALLADARES, Appellant
    V.
    THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
    __________________________________________________________________
    On Appeal from the 359th District Court
    Montgomery County, Texas
    Trial Cause No. 15-12-13675-CR
    __________________________________________________________________
    MEMORANDUM OPINION
    A jury convicted Appellant Maycol Douglas Lagos-Valladares (Lagos or
    Appellant) of aggravated assault on a public servant and assessed punishment at
    forty years of confinement. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 22.02(b)(2)(B) (West
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    2019). 1 In a single issue, Appellant argues that the trial court erred by admitting
    extraneous acts evidence. We affirm.
    Background
    A grand jury indicted Lagos for
    . . . on or about December 26, 2015, . . . while using or exhibiting a
    deadly weapon, to-wit: a motor vehicle, intentionally, knowingly or
    recklessly caus[ing] bodily injury to Michael Chapman, a public
    servant lawfully discharging a public duty, and the defendant knew that
    Michael Chapman was a public servant[.]
    Lagos pleaded “not guilty.” The case was tried to a jury in December 2017, and the
    jury found Lagos guilty.
    Testimony of Law Enforcement Officers
    Officer Michael Chapman, with the Conroe Police Department, testified that
    while working the night shift on December 25, 2015, he was called to West End
    Lumber where he saw the front gate was open and a white Silverado was exiting.
    According to Chapman, the driver “kind of paused[,]” and after Chapman yelled at
    him to get out of the vehicle, the driver accelerated and sped off. At that point,
    Chapman decided to pursue the fleeing vehicle, and as he was getting into his
    vehicle, still with one leg outside, he saw a tan Silverado truck coming at him.
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    We cite the current statutes as subsequent amendments do not affect our
    disposition.
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    Chapman was taken to the hospital and learned that he had broken his tibia as well
    as his fibula. Chapman explained that he had two surgeries, he returned to light duty
    first and later to patrol.
    Sergeant Jeremy Allen, a patrol supervisor with the Conroe Police
    Department, testified that he had retrieved data and analyzed the airbag module from
    the Silverado that had been abandoned at a Burlington Coat Factory (Burlington)
    and towed to the Conroe Police Department on or about December 29, 2015.
    According to Allen, when Chapman’s vehicle was struck, the vehicle was in park,
    and the impact created a “substantial hit[.]” Allen also testified that data from the
    Silverado showed the truck was at “100 percent throttle” and did not have the brake
    depressed in the eight seconds before impact. Allen testified that he “believe[d] the
    individual operating this truck purposefully struck Officer Chapman’s patrol car
    while [Chapman] was standing in the doorway.”
    Detective Jessie Minchew, a detective with the Conroe Police Department,
    testified that, while on duty on Christmas night of 2015, he heard officers get
    dispatched to West End Lumber, and when he learned an officer had been injured,
    he headed to the location. Minchew agreed that the front and rear doors on the
    driver’s side of Chapman’s vehicle were “severely dented and severely damaged[.]”
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    Detective Minchew testified that bolt cutters and several packs of roofing shingles
    were found on the ground in front of Chapman’s vehicle.
    On the day after the incident, Detective Minchew observed a tan Chevrolet
    truck in the Burlington parking lot, not far from West End Lumber, with a suspicious
    wheel, and the truck matched one of the trucks in the incident in which Officer
    Chapman was injured. Minchew observed roofing shingles in the bed of the truck
    that were the same brand observed on the ground at West End Lumber the previous
    night. According to Minchew, there was extensive damage to the front of the
    Chevrolet truck and the driver’s window, and Minchew observed blue and white
    paint transfer on the truck, consistent with the color of Chapman’s police vehicle.
    Based on his observation of the tan truck, Minchew had a reasonable suspicion that
    the Chevy truck from the Burlington parking lot was the truck that had hit Officer
    Chapman, and the truck was towed to the Conroe Police Department as evidence in
    the case.
    Detective Mitchell with the Conroe Police Department, testified that, after
    Officer Minchew discovered the tan Chevy Silverado, Mitchell and his partner went
    to Burlington to ask about the vehicle towed from the parking lot and to view the
    store’s surveillance video. Mitchell explained that the managers at Burlington said
    there was a group of people in the store at that time asking about the same vehicle.
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    The manager pointed out two of the people to the officers and Mitchell and his
    partner made contact with them. Mitchell identified himself and another detective
    talking with the store manager in surveillance video from the store as well as the
    suspects, including Lagos, his girlfriend, Eric Flores, and Junior Medina. Mitchell
    also learned of Karla Pereyra after interviewing Flores and Medina at the police
    station, and Pereyra gave Mitchell and Detective Davis information about Lagos and
    what Lagos said and did the night Officer Chapman was injured.
    Detective Bret Irvine, with the Conroe Police Department, testified that the
    case “beg[a]n to fall together once a tan Silverado was found in the Burlington []
    parking lot[,]” “catty-corner” to the location where Officer Chapman was struck.
    Irvine testified that the truck had front-end damage and was loaded with roofing
    shingles. According to Irvine, the temporary tag on the vehicle showed it was
    registered to Douglas Elisado Lagos Sanchez in Houston.
    Irvine testified that Eric Flores and Lariza Delacruz—Lagos’s girlfriend—
    consented to the police downloading information from their phones. Irvine verified
    Lagos’s cell phone number, and he obtained the cell site information in certain
    exhibits that were admitted into evidence. Irvine also testified that he verified a
    phone number for Juan Vargas, whom he identified as one of the individuals
    involved in the incident and driving one of the vehicles. Irvine agreed that, after
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    arresting Lagos and searching his phone, he identified a contact for Juan Vargas and
    confirmed that calls were made from Lagos’s phone five times between 1:00 a.m.
    and 1:30 a.m. the morning of December 26th. Irvine testified that the cell phone
    records for Lagos’s phone show the location of the cell phone towers about half a
    mile from West End Lumber. Irvine identified State’s Exhibit 87 as a summary he
    created from the cell phone records that show outgoing calls from Lagos, including
    calls to Juan, Karla, and Lariza. Irvine testified that, during the same timeframe the
    cell phone pinged on Lagos’s phone, there were also pings on Juan Vargas’s phone
    at the same tower.
    According to Irvine, his investigation determined that Juan Vargas was the
    driver of the white truck. Irvine testified that “Juan Vargas had a Facebook profile
    with two different white Chevy Silverados that both showed the license plate on the
    picture that he had.” Irvine testified that another officer took a statement from Karla
    Pereyra, and after that statement, Lagos was arrested pursuant to a warrant.
    Sergeant Mark Brockhoeft testified that he was a patrol sergeant and
    supervisor for the Shenandoah Police Department and that his patrol duties in The
    Woodlands area include making traffic stops and “looking for anything suspicious.”
    Brockhoeft agreed he was working on patrol on the night of October 9, 2015. Over
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    objection by the defense, Brockhoeft testified that, at about 3:30 in the morning, he
    saw something suspicious:
    Q. What did you see?
    A. About that time, I was watching for anything suspicious, out of the
    ordinary. I was watching southbound traffic. And I saw a white truck
    pulling a trailer that was loaded down with -- it looked like roofing
    materials. I saw a bunch of roofing fell out from the back of this pickup.
    I didn’t really think anything of it. I figured it was a work truck. They
    were southbound. I watched them enter the main lanes southbound and
    go south.
    Q. Did you see anything that was -- that added to your suspicions, if
    any, following that white truck with the trailer?
    A. Shortly after, I want to say about a minute or 2, I saw a gold color
    pickup truck. It was a half-ton pickup, older model, and it was being
    followed by a little red or maroon car. I didn’t think anything of it until
    I saw the truck. And it was loaded down with roofing materials, as well.
    Q. And when you mean -- and is -- roofing materials, explain to us how
    they were stacked?
    A. From where I could see, it looked like a pallet was stacked in the
    back of this pickup truck. And you could tell that it had a lot of weight.
    Q. How could you tell that? For those of us who don’t know what
    you’re looking for, how do you know, as a public servant, as a police
    officer, when you say something is loaded too heavy?
    A. The rear-end of the pickup was almost dragging the ground.
    Q. Okay. Are there also times for people that do ride-alongs and things,
    if you’re doing drug interdiction as one of your proactive approaches in
    law enforcement, are you trained to see, also, weighed-down vehicles
    sometimes that may have -- and not this case, but sometimes the
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    weighed-down vehicles may tell you there may be some contraband or
    something?
    A. Correct.
    Q. So, you noticed this. How were the, if any, were -- these roofing
    supplies, were they properly secured?
    A. I would say it was unsafe, yes. I could say it was unsafe.
    Brockhoeft testified that he believed the way the roofing materials were stacked in
    the back of the Chevy pickup was unsafe because the vehicle was having a hard time
    “maintaining lane.” Brockhoeft identified Lagos as the person operating the vehicle
    that night. According to Brockhoeft, in his experience, roofing materials were
    commonly stolen from construction sites in the middle of the night. According to
    Brockhoeft, the vehicle was towed because neither Lagos nor his passenger had a
    valid driver’s license. Brockhoeft agreed that the VIN of the truck Lagos drove on
    October 9, 2015, matched the VIN of the vehicle associated with the current case
    involving Officer Chapman. Brockhoeft agreed that he never learned about any
    complainant for the shingles or roofing materials in the truck.
    Testimony of Lagos’s Associates
    Karla Pereyra testified that she was a friend of Lagos, who she explained goes
    by “Brayan[.]” Pereyra testified that Brayan called her at home on the night of
    December 25, 2015, asking her to pick him up in The Woodlands because his truck
    “got messed up,[]” and after he sent her his location in The Woodlands through
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    Facebook, she picked him up. Pereyra identified State’s Exhibits 82, 83, and 84 as
    photographs of her phone showing Facebook communications with “Brayan Lagos,”
    in which the defendant sent her his GPS location, and a copy of a Facebook page for
    Brayan Lagos, which Pereyra identified as the defendant’s Facebook page.
    According to Pereyra, Lagos told her “he had run over a cop[]” after a police officer
    had shown up while he and others were stealing roofing materials, and that he wanted
    to go back to see if he was alive, and if he was, he would shoot him.
    Juan Vargas agreed that in January 2017, he pleaded guilty to aggravated
    assault of a public servant and received a reduced charge and a sentence of thirteen
    years contingent upon his cooperation and truthful testimony. Vargas identified
    Lagos as someone who was with him on the night that Officer Chapman was injured.
    Vargas testified that on Christmas of 2015, he received a call from Lagos about 8:00
    or 9:00 in the evening. According to Vargas, Lagos said “we were going to a
    place[,]” a warehouse or roofing place, and they “were going only to steal the
    material[.]” Vargas testified he was driving a white Silverado truck that night and
    that Lagos was driving a gray Silverado. Vargas stated that upon arrival at the
    warehouse, another man who had ridden with him broke the fence using the bolt
    cutters pictured in State’s Exhibit 19 after which the men started loading material
    into one of the trucks. According to Vargas, after about ten minutes, the police
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    arrived, Vargas got in his truck and left, and Lagos left “a little bit later[.]” Vargas
    agreed that Lagos called him afterwards and said he had crashed the patrol car, his
    truck was not working well, and said “that he hit the police officer . . . he left him
    there lying there. And they would go back to hit him again.”
    Lagos’s Testimony
    Lagos agreed he spent December 25, 2015, at home and that about 5:00 or
    6:00 p.m., he gave his keys to Lenin as he had agreed to let Lenin borrow his truck.
    Lagos testified that he went to see an old girlfriend about 10:00 that night, after
    which Karla Pereyra picked him up because he had lent out his vehicle. Lagos also
    spoke with other people that evening trying to get a ride. Lagos testified that Pereyra
    took him to Junior Medina’s apartment, that Lagos also called Vargas because he
    needed a car to go home, that Vargas drove him back home, and Lagos went to sleep.
    Lagos testified that, the next day, he called Lenin to find out what happened
    to his truck, and Lagos went to the Burlington store to look for his truck but did not
    find it. Lagos testified that he spoke with a store manager outside the Burlington
    store, but the manager did not know about his truck. According to Lagos, the
    Houston police came to his apartment that night and asked if he was the person in
    the photograph at Burlington, and after he agreed he was, he was arrested and taken
    to the Conroe Police station. Lagos testified that no one had admitted to him that
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    they had struck a police officer, that they had been stealing shingles, or that they had
    wrecked his vehicle.
    According to Lagos, when Sergeant Brockhoeft stopped him on October 9,
    2015, he had been working at a house in Conroe and was heading to a warehouse
    and then home, and that he had gotten the shingles from the contractor with whom
    he was working.
    Issue
    In a single issue, the Appellant argues that the trial court abused its discretion
    by admitting certain extraneous acts evidence over his objection. Specifically,
    Appellant contends the trial court erred in allowing the testimony of Sergeant
    Brockhoeft that he stopped Appellant in October 2015 when Appellant was driving
    a truck loaded with roofing shingles. Appellant argues that this extraneous conduct
    evidence is barred by Rule 404(b) and that there were not enough similarities
    between the October stop and the offense charged for the extraneous conduct
    evidence to be admitted under any exception to the Rule. Appellant also argues that
    admission of this evidence violated Texas Rule of Evidence 403.
    Standard of Review
    An appellate court reviews a trial court’s ruling on the admission of evidence
    for an abuse of discretion. Rhomer v. State, 
    569 S.W.3d 664
    , 669 (Tex. Crim. App.
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    2019) (citing Rodgers v. State, 
    205 S.W.3d 525
    , 527 (Tex. Crim. App. 2006); Powell
    v. State, 
    63 S.W.3d 435
    , 438 (Tex. Crim. App. 2001)). The trial court abuses its
    discretion when it acts without reference to any guiding rules and principles or acts
    arbitrarily or unreasonably. 
    Id. (citing Montgomery
    v. State, 
    810 S.W.2d 372
    , 380
    (Tex. Crim. App. 1990)).
    Even if the trial court erred in overruling Appellant’s objections, we will not
    reverse the judgment if the error was harmless. See Tex. R. App. P. 44.2. We review
    error in admitting extraneous offense evidence as non-constitutional error. Casey v.
    State, 
    215 S.W.3d 870
    , 885 (Tex. Crim. App. 2007). We will disregard non-
    constitutional error that does not affect a criminal defendant’s substantial rights. See
    Tex. R. App. P. 44.2(b). “A substantial right is affected when the error had a
    substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury’s verdict.”
    Schmutz v. State, 
    440 S.W.3d 29
    , 39 (Tex. Crim. App. 2014). In our determination
    of whether error adversely affected the jury’s decision, we consider everything in
    the record, including testimony, physical evidence, jury instructions, the State’s
    theories and any defensive theories, closing arguments, and voir dire. 
    Id. Extraneous Conduct
    Evidence
    Evidence of a crime, wrong, or other act is not admissible to prove a person’s
    character to show that on a particular occasion the person acted in accordance with
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    the character. Tex. R. Evid. 404(b)(1). “Rule 404(b) sets out an illustrative, not
    exhaustive, list of exceptions to the prohibition against admitting evidence of
    extraneous offenses including ‘proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation,
    plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.’” Daggett v. State, 
    187 S.W.3d 444
    , 451 n.13 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005) (quoting Tex. R. Evid. 404(b))
    (emphasis omitted); Prible v. State, 
    175 S.W.3d 724
    , 731 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005).
    The Court of Criminal Appeals has explained that “‘Rule 404(b) is a rule of inclusion
    rather than exclusion.’ The rule excludes only that evidence that is offered (or will
    be used) solely for the purpose of proving bad character and hence conduct in
    conformity with that bad character.” De La Paz v. State, 
    279 S.W.3d 336
    , 343 (Tex.
    Crim. App. 2009) (footnotes omitted) (quoting United States v. Bowie, 
    232 F.3d 923
    ,
    929 (D.C. Cir. 2000) (discussing Fed. R. Evid. 404(b)).
    “Whether extraneous offense evidence has relevance apart from character
    conformity, as required by Rule 404(b), is a question for the trial court.” Moses v.
    State, 
    105 S.W.3d 622
    , 627 (Tex. Crim. App. 2003). In determining the admissibility
    of extraneous offenses or uncharged acts, courts first determine whether the evidence
    is relevant to a material issue in the case and second whether the relevant evidence
    should be admitted as an exception to Rule 404(b). Rogers v. State, 
    853 S.W.2d 29
    ,
    32-33 (Tex. Crim. App. 1993). A trial court’s 404(b) ruling admitting evidence is
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    generally within the zone of reasonable disagreement “if there is evidence
    supporting that an extraneous transaction is relevant to a material, non-propensity
    issue.” Devoe v. State, 
    354 S.W.3d 457
    , 469 (Tex. Crim. App. 2011) (citing 
    Powell, 63 S.W.3d at 438
    ). For example, the evidence may be admissible to rebut a defensive
    theory or when the defense “open[s] the door.” 
    Powell, 63 S.W.3d at 439
    ;
    Halliburton v. State, 
    528 S.W.2d 216
    , 218 (Tex. Crim. App. 1975).
    One of the main rationales for admitting extraneous conduct evidence is to
    prove the identity of the defendant. Segundo v. State, 
    270 S.W.3d 79
    , 88 (Tex. Crim.
    App. 2008) (citing Castillo v. State, 
    739 S.W.2d 280
    , 289 (Tex. Crim. App. 1987)).
    The trial judge has considerable latitude in determining that identity is disputed. 
    Id. at 86
    (citing Page v. State, 
    137 S.W.3d 75
    , 78 (Tex. Crim. App. 2004); Lane v. State,
    
    933 S.W.2d 504
    , 519 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996)). Identity of the defendant is at issue
    when the defense cross-examines witnesses about their identification of the
    defendant or alleges that someone else committed the crime. See Page v. State, 
    213 S.W.3d 332
    , 336 (Tex. Crim. App. 2006); 
    Lane, 933 S.W.2d at 519
    . Identity may
    also be placed in dispute by the defendant’s opening statement or by affirmative
    evidence offered by the defense. 
    Segundo, 270 S.W.3d at 86
    (citing 
    Powell, 63 S.W.3d at 439
    ; 
    Page, 137 S.W.3d at 78
    ). The relevancy is usually that characteristics
    of the charged crime and the uncharged conduct are so distinctively similar that they
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    mark the crime as the work of a single individual. 
    Id. at 88.
    No rigid rules dictate
    what constitutes sufficient similarities, and the common characteristics may be
    proximity in time and place, mode of commission of the crimes, the person’s dress,
    or any other elements which mark both instances of conduct as having been
    committed by the same person. 
    Id. (citing Taylor
    v. State, 
    920 S.W.2d 319
    , 322 (Tex.
    Crim. App. 1996). But if the similarities are generic and are merely typical to this
    type of crime, they will not constitute a “signature” crime. Id.; see also Page v. State,
    
    125 S.W.3d 640
    , 649 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2003, pet. ref’d) (no error in
    admitting evidence that defendant had possessed a black handgun prior to the offense
    charged because a witness had testified as to a description of the weapon); Pena v.
    State, 
    867 S.W.2d 97
    , 98-99 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christ 1993, pet. ref’d) (the use of
    the same car in an earlier burglary was sufficiently similar to the charged offense to
    justify its admission).
    When undertaking a Rule 403 analysis, the trial court must, upon proper
    objection, balance or weigh the probative value of the evidence against unfair
    prejudice, confusion of the issues, misleading of the jury, and undue delay or
    needless presentation of cumulative evidence. Gigliobianco v. State, 
    210 S.W.3d 637
    , 641-42 (Tex. Crim. App. 2006); see Tex. R. Evid. 403. In balancing probative
    value and unfair prejudice under Rule 403, an appellate court presumes that the
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    probative value will outweigh any prejudicial effect. Montgomery v. State, 
    810 S.W.2d 372
    , 389 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991) (op. on reh’d). Rule 403 does not require
    that the trial court perform the balancing test on the record. Distefano v. State, 
    532 S.W.3d 25
    , 31 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2016, pet. ref’d).
    Analysis
    Appellant’s brief states that “[i]dentity was arguably brought into contention”
    at trial. The State argues that identity was “the central issue at trial.” Appellant
    pleaded “not guilty.” In a pretrial hearing, defense counsel told the court “[i]dentity
    is going to be the central issue in this case[.]” In Appellant’s opening statement, his
    attorney stated “They have no evidence at all that Mr. Lagos was driving. And
    there’s an important reason why? Because he wasn’t. Somebody else was driving
    that vehicle. . . . The issue is who was driving that car.” Defense counsel repeated
    this argument in closing and argued that none of the State’s ninety exhibits “has
    anything to do with his presence there.” Lagos himself testified that he did not drive
    the truck that struck Officer Chapman, that he had lent his truck to an associate, and
    that when Officer Chapman was struck, Lagos was with an old girlfriend. The record
    provides a reasonable basis for the trial court to have concluded that identity was an
    issue. See Dabney v State, 
    492 S.W.3d 309
    , 317 (Tex. Crim. App. 2016) (citing Bass
    v. State, 
    270 S.W.3d 557
    , 563 (Tex. Crim. App. 2008)) (explaining that a defense
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    opening statement could open the door to the admission of extraneous-offense
    evidence to rebut the defensive theory presented in the opening statement); 
    Segundo, 270 S.W.3d at 86
    (explaining that identity may be placed in dispute by a defendant’s
    opening statement or cross-examination, or by evidence offered by the defense).
    At the pretrial hearing, the State explained to the court that the extraneous
    conduct evidence regarded “the same exact truck, same exact VIN number, same
    exact area of town, [with] the same exact materials two months earlier with the
    defendant on camera photographed behind the wheel of this same truck.” At trial,
    when the State sought admission of Sergeant Brockhoeft’s testimony, the State
    explained the October 2015 police stop showed “[t]he defendant is driving the truck.
    It’s the same VIN number. It’s two months prior. And it’s for a similar thing. . . .
    this is an incident that we believe proves identity in this case.” The State also told
    the court that in his opening statement, defense counsel had argued there was no
    evidence that Lagos was driving, that someone else drove, and “[t]he issue is who
    was driving that car.” The defense argued that the two instances of conduct were not
    similar enough to constitute an exception to Rule 404(b) because the October
    conduct was theft and the offense being tried was assault on a peace officer.
    In overruling the defense objection, the court stated
    . . . I am looking at identity because this is a circumstantial
    evidence case. There was no one on the scene, an eyewitness that saw
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    this happening. So, identity is important. I’m looking at the theory of
    relevance, the MO, in which the pattern in characteristics of these
    crimes are so distinctively similar they constitute a signature or a
    pattern of some sort, their proximity in time and place. The motive,
    commission of the crimes, motive of duress of the perpetrator, any other
    element that marks both crimes of having been committed by the same
    person.
    ....
    I’m looking at the similarities. And the similarities can’t be those
    just common to that type of crime. So, it’s almost better that we don’t
    have two burglaries or two whatever is going on here because what I’m
    looking at is similarities in the cars that are being driven. And that’s
    what this evidence would show. Similarities in the theft of or the
    possession of roofing materials, which is what this other would show.
    And the proximity of all this in the same area, same -- pretty close to
    where the roofing company will be the materials. So, I’m overruling
    your objection.
    Even assuming without deciding that the trial court erred in admitting
    Sergeant Brockhoeft’s testimony about the October incident, on the record before us
    we conclude that the error was harmless. See Tex. R. App. P. 44.2. In addition to
    hearing the Sergeant’s testimony, the jury also heard Pereyra testify that Lagos told
    her “he had run over a cop[]” while he and others were stealing roofing materials.
    The jury heard Juan Vargas testify that he went with Lagos to steal roofing materials
    on the night of Christmas 2015, after which Lagos called him and told him he had
    crashed into a police car, that he had hit a police officer, and that he wanted to go
    back and run over the officer again. Cell phone records put Lagos in the vicinity of
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    West End Lumber on the night of December 25-26, 2015. We conclude any error in
    admitting evidence of the 2015 incident had no substantial and injurious effect or
    influence in determining the jury’s verdict nor did it affect a substantial right of
    Lagos. Thus, any such error must be disregarded. See id.; 
    Schmutz, 440 S.W.3d at 39
    ; Taylor v. State, 
    268 S.W.3d 571
    , 592 (Tex. Crim. App. 2008).
    To the extent that Appellant argues on appeal that the extraneous conduct
    evidence was inadmissible under Rule 403, Appellant failed to make a separate Rule
    403 objection at trial and, therefore, this issue was not preserved for our review. See
    Green v. State, 
    934 S.W.2d 92
    , 102 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996) (explaining that where
    appellant did not raise a separate trial objection based upon Rule 403, the issue was
    not properly presented for appellate review); 
    Montgomery, 810 S.W.2d at 389
    (the
    objecting party must make a 403 objection at trial that is separate from its Rule
    404(b) objection); see also Bekendam v. State, 
    441 S.W.3d 295
    , 300 (Tex. Crim.
    App. 2014) (“the point of error on appeal must comport with the objection made at
    trial”). Appellant also failed to adequately brief this point on appeal. See Tex. R.
    App. P. 38.1(i); see Lucio v. State, 
    351 S.W.3d 878
    , 896 (Tex. Crim. App. 2011)
    (stating an inadequately briefed point of error presents nothing for review);
    
    Montgomery, 810 S.W.2d at 377
    (explaining that the party opposing admission of
    evidence based on Rule 403 bears the burden “to not only demonstrate the proffered
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    evidence’s negative attributes but to show also that these negative attributes
    ‘substantially outweigh’ any probative value[]”).
    We overrule Appellant’s issue and affirm the trial court’s judgment.
    AFFIRMED.
    _________________________
    LEANNE JOHNSON
    Justice
    Submitted on April 17, 2019
    Opinion Delivered June 12, 2019
    Do Not Publish
    Before McKeithen, C.J., Horton and Johnson, JJ.
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