COLLIN COUNTY, Texas — State Rep. Frederick Frazier has been discharged from his probation, which he was serving as part of his sentencing for his conviction of impersonating a public official, the Collin County District Clerk's Office confirmed. As a result of his probation being complete, the charges against him have been dismissed.
Frazier had earlier pleaded no contest, the equivalent of a guilty plea, to two counts of impersonating a public official, a misdemeanor charge. On April 25, the clerks' office said, he was discharged from his probation, which he was to serve as part of his plea deal. As part of the plea deal, Frazier was also offered deferred adjudication, meaning the charges won't remain on his criminal record following his discharge from probation.
Frazier separately pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal mischief -- a misdemeanor.
In a tweet posted on X late last month, Frazier celebrated his charge's dismissal, and compared his plight to that of former President Donald Trump.
"[M]y case has given me a profound appreciation of how blind bitterness leads people to push politically motivated issues as far as they can if they think it will give them a political advantage," Frazier wrote in that. "It gave me a small taste of what President Trump faces now."
With the charges dismissed, the 28-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department's initial dishonorable discharge from DPD has since been amended.
Because Frazier's no contest and not guilty pleas came a day after he filed to retire from the Dallas Police Department, and he filed for his retirement while under investigation by DPD for his criminal charges, Frazier was released from the department with a dishonorable discharge -- standard procedure for such cases at DPD. With his criminal case now dismissed, his discharge has been re-designated to a general discharge.
In June 2022, Frazier was indicted for impersonating a code enforcement officer after Dr. Paul Chabot, Frazier’s then-opponent in the GOP runoff, reported his campaign signs began "disappearing," including from an area Walmart.
Chabot said he was told by the city manager that his signs' placements at the Walmart "were fine," but that he was later told by a Walmart store manager that a person claiming to be a code compliance officer ordered his signs removed from the store's property, claiming they were out of compliance. That person was later determined to be Frazier.
The Texas Rangers then began an investigation into Frazier after Chabot filed a police report, claiming some of his signs were allegedly stolen.
"To this day, [Frazier] denies that he ever specifically said he was a code compliance officer," Frazier's attorney, Robert Rogers, said last December. "He's just pointing out these signs are in the wrong place."
At the time, Rogers called the case against Frazier a political ploy.
"Mr. Chabot is a sore loser," Rogers said. "He's obsessed with trying to take form [Frazier] because he couldn't do it legitimately."
Frazier is currently headed for a runoff in the primary of his reelection campaign to represent District 61 in the Texas House. In the Tuesday, March 5, election, Frazier earned 32 percent of the votes cast in that race's Republican primary -- a second-place finish behind challenger Keresa Richardson's 40 percent, but good enough to earn him a spot in a runoff election, as neither candidate earned more than 50 percent of the votes.
Voters will choose between Frazier and Richardson in the May 28 runoff elections.
The winner of that vote will then square off against a Democratic challenger on the November 5 ballots.
Editor's note: An earlier version of this article indicated that the charges against Frazier were not dismissed despite their deferred adjudication, which is not the case. This article has been updated to clarify that point. It has also been updated to include new information about Frazier's discharge from the Dallas Police Department, which changed as a result of the charges against him being dismissed. WFAA regrets the errors.
