Rose Rodriguez back in jail [The Eagle, Bryan, Texas]

June 09--Rose Rodriguez has been booked into the Brazos County Jail seven times since April 2011, but never for more than five hours -- until this weekend.

Rodriguez, 47, who is the former owner of the Rose Home, will spend the weekend behind county bars after being arrested Friday morning for violating bond conditions set in 2011 after her arrest on five felony charges and four counts of driving misdemeanors.

Judge J.D. Langley, who signed the warrants, ordered no bail be set for Rodriguez until she returned to court for a bond hearing -- which is scheduled for 4 p.m. Monday.

The warrants for her arrest were issued Thursday, the same day a grand jury indicted Rodriguez for the theft charges first lodged against her on June 1, when she turned herself in after an investigation found she had deceived local couples into believing they were purchasing homes that she didn't own and which had been foreclosed upon.

She was released the same day after posting $26,000 in bail with a different company than had issued her 2011 bonds.

According to court documents, Robert Olsen, a bondsman with Brazos Valley Bail Bonds, filed an affidavit to surrender nine bonds totaling $17,000 based on information received from a former employee of Rodriguez's that Rodriguez "has made comments in reference to fleeing the country to elude the numerous charges [she] is now facing."

In addition, Olsen said in the affidavit that Rodriguez violated conditions by failing to check in weekly, update her address or inform the bond office that she had been re-arrested last week.

Olsen declined to discuss details of what Rodriguez's former employee had told him or when because the case is pending.

In 2011, Rodriguez was charged with three counts of aggravated perjury and one count of fabricating physical evidence after authorities said she lied under oath during a deposition for a civil lawsuit filed against Rodriguez and her husband, Carlos Rodriguez, by a family who claimed the couple improperly cared for their relative while she was in their care.

The Rodriguezes formerly operated a series of nursing homes throughout Bryan and College Station and were ordered to pay the family $750,000 in damages after failing to show up for a hearing. The case is currently in appeals.

In his affidavits for surrendering bonds, Olsen said he paid $3,000 for Rodriguez's release for each of the perjury charges and for the fabricating evidence charge, and another $3,000 in bond for theft of property between $1,500 and $20,000, which she was charged with at the same time she was arrested on the other felonies.

Olsen also requested a total of $8,000 in bond be surrendered that had been paid for Rodriguez's release on four misdemeanor traffic charges.

As of Friday afternoon, Rodriguez had two hearings scheduled for next week -- a bond hearing Monday and motion to increase bond next Friday.

The motion was filed by prosecutor Jarvis Parsons, who is asking the court to consider raising her bond to $50,000 for each of the four felony theft counts she was arrested for on June 1.

Rodriguez's attorney, David Hilburn, declined to comment.

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