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: 3/2 large brick home, with large shop on 1 ac corner lot. $259,900. See pics @ or 576-4069.
1978: Graduates from police academy
1979: Promoted to patrol deputy
1982: Promoted to investigator
1986: Promoted to lieutenant of investigations
1988: Promoted to captain, taking position Jan. 1, 1989
1991: Graduated from the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va.
1992: Elected sheriff, served three terms
December 1992: Fires jail supervisor Capt. Richard Romano
1994: Inmate who claimed he was raped in Victoria County Jail sues the county and Ratcliff
1997: Engages in oral sex with a teenage boy, documents charge
2004: Loses election to Sheriff T. Michael O’Connor
2005: Calls dispatchers to report three armed men in camouflage near his home
2006: Texas Department of Public Safety begins investigation into sexual assault accusations against Ratcliff
2007: Became DA Stephen Tyler’s chief of staff
2007: Represented law enforcement during an audit of how the Catholic Diocese of Victoria reports child abuse; concluded September
Oct. 26, 2007: Indicted and arrested on three counts of sexual assault of a teenage boy, resigns from DA’s office
End of October 2007: Local judges recuse themselves, citing prior working relationship with Ratcliff
November 2007: Pleaded not guilty
March 2007: Tyler recuses himself from prosecuting after learning he could be called as a witness
Thursday: Accepted plea deal, pleading guilty to aggravated perjury