Late Friday night in Laredo, someone called 911 about a fight.

The callers said a group of men were going at it. They said the men had guns out. They said the men were pointing them at each other.

Police say the call came in at 11:48 p.m. on Aug. 28. Officers went to a street in the Los Altos neighborhood. That part of town sits along Highway 359.

An officer found one of the men from the call. Police name him as Miguel Angel Turrubiates, 21. El Mañana de Nuevo Laredo reported he was driving one of the cars the callers had described.

Then the stop turned. Police say the man threatened the officer who was detaining him.

He was arrested. He is charged with making a terroristic threat against a public servant. Police call that a third degree felony. In Texas a felony at that level can mean 2 to 10 years in prison.

He is also charged with reckless driving. Police list that as a Class A misdemeanor. In Texas that class of misdemeanor can mean up to a year in county jail.

Here is the part that stands out.

Officers did not find a gun on him. El Mañana reported that no weapon was found on the man they held. The callers said guns were out. Police walked away with no gun in hand.

That gap matters. A person with a gun call is one of the tensest calls a city cop gets. Officers roll up fast. They do not know who is armed. They do not know who is telling the truth. They have to sort it out in the dark, in seconds.

Sometimes the guns are real. Sometimes the caller got it wrong. Sometimes the guns are gone before the first patrol car turns the corner.

The charge itself throws people off. Terroristic threat sounds like terrorism. In Texas it is not that. The law covers threats of violence meant to put someone in fear of getting badly hurt. When the person threatened is a cop or another public worker, the charge gets more serious.

Laredo has seen this charge before, and not long ago.

In July, police charged a 20 year old Laredo man with the same offense. Officers said he taunted a Border Patrol agent on a city street. They said he drove close to the agent's unit and yelled a phrase police called slang for shooting someone. That is a separate case with a separate man. It shows the charge is not rare here.

That Friday night was a busy one for Laredo police.

About 36 minutes before the gun call, officers were after someone else. Police say a silver Nissan Frontier would not stop for a traffic violation at 11:12 p.m. The department's drone unit followed the truck to a house. Officers arrested a 19 year old man there. He is charged with evading arrest. That is a different man, a different street and a different case.

Two arrests. Both after 11 p.m. Both in the same city on the same night.

Los Altos is a working neighborhood on the east side of the highway. People there live with the noise of a border town that never really shuts down. A fight in the street at midnight is not shocking. Men pulling guns on each other is another thing.

El Tejano is not printing the block. Nobody who lives on that street called the police on themselves, and they still have to live there.

For now the record is thin. Police have not said what started the fight. They have not said if the other men from the call were ever found. They have not said if any gun was recovered from anyone that night. They have not released the words the man is accused of saying to the officer.

That last one matters most. The felony rests on what he said. Until those words are in a court file, the public only has the police version of them.

He is accused, not guilty. He gets a lawyer, a judge and, if he wants one, a jury.

The rest of it now moves to a Webb County courtroom.

A charge is not proof. Everyone is innocent until a court says otherwise.