Local Businessman Who Took On Assumed Name Says It Was All A Simple Mistake

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Story Created: Nov 25, 2009 at 5:56 PM CST

Story Updated: Nov 25, 2009 at 6:26 PM CST

 

 

 

Nov 25, 2009

  Dan Caballero ran into legal problems when he recently applied for a liquor license for a new restaurant.

   But while the media reports have been potentially damaging to Caballero, the District Attorney says the facts so far show this to be nothing more than a simple mistake.

  The 52 year old Caballero has become a fixture on local television commercials. A public figure who's businesses have thrived in recent years, expanding from a garden nursery to home builder to most recently a successful restaurant owner.

   Clearly an easy target for anyone looking to get even. And that, says his attorney is exactly what happened.

   Watch Rudy Trevino's report for more information.

Friday, Dec 4 at 7:31 PM unknown 37 wrote ...

Well I worked for Baja Coast for awhile, Dan was never rude to me nor hit me with any gardening tools nor did he pee on me. His wife is a sweet sweet person. The truth will come out good or bad. I work at another local place and I can tell you Baja Coast is very clean and food is good, where I work now the cooks smoke while cooking. So do not judge a book by its cover and lets see how this turns out!

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Wednesday, Dec 2 at 1:47 PM hitman wrote ...

Are you kidding me???? Has anyone ever heard of fraud?? He has falsified every doucument he has signed in the last thirty years. Where did all the money come from to buy all that property? Tre trimming?? He is laundering money. Someone needs to start digging. You dont just move to a new state and change you name.,and you dont make enough money to buy Staples frontage and all the adjoining property and fukky stock (over stock) a nursery from trimming trees.Our DA should wake up!!!!!!

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Tuesday, Dec 1 at 9:28 PM anonynous wrote ...

well it looks like he paid off all the right people but if he gets caught that too is a simple mistake so he is up in his office laughing his rear end off

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Sunday, Nov 29 at 11:43 PM dgarza wrote ...

I find it interesting that celis was prosecuted holding nothing back... this man is just like him... a hard working sucessful man just trying to make a buck. The difference is they are not on a witch hunt for boen... i am so confused what makes them any different????

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Sunday, Nov 29 at 10:41 PM Deb wrote ...

Give me a break-- How does one have a name change and just fill that name in on ALL legal documents for how many years?? How funny is this?? While no one should be a target just because he has money and has made someone angry, he should also be just as liable as the rest of us for criminal behavior.

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Friday, Nov 27 at 11:20 PM my2cents wrote ...

All this talk of urinating in the plants...I wonder if the dude that knows this for a fact is a voyeur...how does he/she know this? All sounds kinda creepy...

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Friday, Nov 27 at 10:43 PM Curious wrote ...

Can anyone tell me if it's agaist the LAW to use a false name to get on N.A.S. C.C. or is it ok if you are the south Texas gardner

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Friday, Nov 27 at 10:34 PM FriendOfDanAndElba wrote ...

Finally someone reports this story responsibly. Perhaps the other channels are just mad because he won't give them an interview. They should be sued for slander. The only thing that they have reported that is true is that he used another name. He isn't hiding from anything b/c he doesn't have anything to hide from. In order to have a "criminal history" you must be convicted of a crime and David Boen was never convicted of anything. I think KIII should be commended for sticking to the truth

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Friday, Nov 27 at 3:51 PM BIZ wrote ...

I have done lots of buiness with Dan and find him to be on the up and up.

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Friday, Nov 27 at 9:09 AM Anoymous also wrote ...

The man also got on N.A.S. C.C. as dan so much for home land sucureity

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Friday, Nov 27 at 8:00 AM Anonymous wrote ...

I can't believe that boring story made the news!

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Friday, Nov 27 at 5:50 AM JJ wrote ...

Wednesday, Nov 25 at 8:46 PM Anonymous wrote ... This man stole patents from ... and when he was confronted, he threatened peoples lives. He has hit people with shovels, and he urinates in the plants."" REally?!? Why hasn't anyone pursued? Not easy to steal a patent IF you do your "well documented" homework. As for the theats, shovel attacks, and plants - I know a few who say he is a very threatening, and nasty bugger. I believe them, but can NOT say they have much personal integrity either.

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Thursday, Nov 26 at 11:11 PM Mrs.Black wrote ...

I wonder how he's managed to keep up with his taxes if he's had an assummed name all of these years. What about his social security number? Maybe there is more to it.

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Thursday, Nov 26 at 9:47 PM Anonymous wrote ...

TV3, your credibility is out the door.Corpus now knows your reporting is biased and can be bought with commercials.Boen doesn't need a defense attny.He has the DA Office

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Thursday, Nov 26 at 4:20 PM rocks1010 wrote ...

Suprised KIII didn't run the story first when they clearly had the information before anyone else. GM Drilling probably told them last minute to not run it because "Caballero" is a major advertiser and does the KIII studio gardening. KIII-TV, where money comes before giving the news to the public. It's funny how KIII is defending "Dan" but not Bonilla..This post will probably be deleted btw cause they do that when they don't like negative comments in regards to them...Ask Alan Harwell.

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Thursday, Nov 26 at 9:55 AM dan wrote ...

We need more entrepreneurs in this town. If the few we actually have here dont get the support they need, we'll wind up like kingsville in a few years...ranches and a base

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Thursday, Nov 26 at 9:51 AM jsdfred wrote ...

Amazes me the number of people ready to have a public lynching. If these good citizens knew of wrong doings by this man - they are guilty of not speaking out before now. Perhaps you might be able to ruin him and have some more jobs lost for the City. Look in the mirror all of you potential vigilantes.

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Thursday, Nov 26 at 9:13 AM THANKS wrote ...

He is a disgrace to this community. Ate at his resturant could pounce the rolls off the table, never got more. We wrote his account off as a bad debt. He would as for service and not pay.I know he pays for for the cheapest but expects new, then not pay at all.

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Thursday, Nov 26 at 8:56 AM brenda wrote ...

i think he knew exactly what he was doing and should go straight to jail do not pass go do not collect anything but hard time and i dont mean watching tv and working out with weights we need to get tough on people in jail so they dont want to go back and he definitely needs to go

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Thursday, Nov 26 at 7:02 AM beachbum wrote ...

What an EVIL man! He pays millions in taxes to be given to those who won't work and pays hundreds of people who want to work. So he is not the easiest guy to work for, it is not a easy job being the boss, I know. Your help will steal you blind and justify it by saying you owed it to them. That is why they call a nice guy in business bankrupt and nobody wins. So what he changed his name, probably trying to fit in,good name for a white boy in south Texas. He has NEVER been convicted So lets leave

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Thursday, Nov 26 at 6:25 AM me wrote ...

"That tends to indicate to me that he's not been wanting to defraud anybody...".It been 20 years! Listen Carlos Valdez, the crime is done at the time it is committed, when Dave applied for an TABC license under an assumed name, it was then that the crime was committed. That's illegal to do. Changing his name now does NOT fix what crime he's committed in the past!

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Thursday, Nov 26 at 3:22 AM whispking wrote ...

Imagine that- the station that prominently features "Dan"-the one that helped him become such a household namesake in this area- is beside themselves to spin this as a slander campaign....not too hard to guess who's got their irons in his fire.

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Thursday, Nov 26 at 1:16 AM Di wrote ...

Why is everyone giving this con man the benefit of the doubt? Could it be his money is buying quite a few people off to make this go away?

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Wednesday, Nov 25 at 11:45 PM concerned plant lover wrote ...

How does the person that states the urine in the plants know this? Wasn't Mauricio Celis doing the same thing as Mr. Caballero? Muaricio Celis was going around town claiming to be someone he really wasn't. Simple mistake? No such thing for either man.

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Wednesday, Nov 25 at 10:36 PM Mr. T wrote ...

an "easy target" because he is a "successful" business man? er ah how about he is an "easy target" because he has a crimial history and is hiding behind a namechange? Or...could a

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Wednesday, Nov 25 at 10:21 PM Anonymous wrote ...

What a crock. Sounds like a crooks past caught up with him finally. Wow, I wonder if he contributes to the D.A.'s campaign fund? The DA sounds like he is pushing hard for this to go away. Falsifying governmental records to conceal criminal history is against the law. Listening to the DA, it sounds like it was just a simple misunderstanding. Corpus Christi's finest!

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Wednesday, Nov 25 at 10:16 PM Matthew wrote ...

Anonymous is probably the one who burned Dan in the first place. Either Anonymous works at Turners or is an upset former employee; get a life anonymous.

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Wednesday, Nov 25 at 9:16 PM danfan wrote ...

I heard it raises the acidity of the soil Corpus Christi Dan says is very alkalide

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Wednesday, Nov 25 at 8:53 PM LT wrote ...

Wow I'm going to have to try that......He knows his plants.......

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Wednesday, Nov 25 at 8:46 PM Anonymous wrote ...

This man stole patents from Turners Gardenland and when he was confronted, he threatened peoples lives. He has hit people with shovels, and he urinates in the plants.

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