Maverick County Vehicle Impound Guide

Tavo's Towing handles most non-consent tows for the Eagle Pass Police Department and the Maverick County Sheriff's Office, but its dispatch yard actually sits in Crystal City, 802 Veterans Ave., outside the county entirely. Anyone arrested in Eagle Pass needs their own ride out there to retrieve a vehicle. A secondary provider, Eagle Towing, handles broader regional zones; either the Texas state portal FindMyTowedCar.org or a call to the arresting agency's non-emergency dispatch will confirm which lot actually has the car.

Release hours run Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with after-hours release available for an added gate fee. Storage runs $22.85 a day for vehicles under 25 feet, $39.99 for anything longer, and a standard non-consent tow costs up to $272. A $50 notification fee kicks in once a vehicle has sat 24 hours unclaimed. The release window tends to close for lunch around noon to 1 p.m. at smaller regional lots, and the last processing slot generally runs out by 4:30 p.m.; arriving late all but guarantees an extra day's fee on top of after-hours charges. Scheduling a pickup for 9 to 11 a.m. or 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. avoids both problems.

Texas' 12-hour rule can also save a day's charge: a car towed at 10 p.m. and picked up by 8 a.m. the next morning crosses midnight but still only accrues one day's storage, not two, since the total time on the lot stays under 12 hours. Plenty of defendants get billed for the extra day anyway simply because nobody flags the rule at pickup.

Maverick County's uninsured rate runs unusually high, and that collides directly with a quirk of state towing law. A storage facility can't legally demand proof of insurance to release a car to its owner, but the driver legally needs proof of insurance to drive that car off the lot and onto a public road. An uninsured owner who gets the car released still can't drive it away, and ends up paying for a second private tow just to get it home.

Only the registered owner can claim a vehicle in person with valid ID. If they can't make it, a notarized VSF011 or VSF013 form authorizing someone else to collect the car works instead, and notably, a notarization from Mexico is legally valid here and must be accepted. The fastest recovery path skips the arrested driver entirely: since a defendant is typically held at least 12 to 24 hours before magistration, a co-owner or family member with a notarized form can start the retrieval process the moment the vehicle is located, well before the defendant is even out of jail.

A tow believed to lack probable cause can be challenged at the Justice of the Peace court covering the precinct where the vehicle was stopped, within 14 calendar days of the tow; the filing fee runs around $54.