Texas Official Warns SpaceX Amid Showdown Over Public Roads
- Cameron County DA says company’s guards blocking two streets
- DA says Musk’s firm not authorized ‘to disregard Texas law’
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A Texas prosecutor warned billionaire Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. that the company’s private security guards are blocking access to public roads around one of its bases, a situation that could potentially result in lawsuits and criminal charges.
Security guards hired by SpaceX are preventing people from accessing two county roads that now make up part of SpaceX’s Starbase complex, located about 22 miles east of Brownsville, Cameron County District Attorney Luis Saenz warned a SpaceX executive in a public letter released Tuesday.