San Antonio Coffeehouse Owner Indicted for $2.1 Million Fraud Scheme

Jorge Ernesto Campos Herrero, co-founder of CommonWealth Coffeehouse in San Antonio, has been indicted on charges of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. The indictment, filed on May 6, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, alleges that Herrero attempted to secure a $2.1 million loan from an unnamed company to purchase commercial property in Grand Prairie, Texas.

According to the indictment, Herrero forged a lease agreement and an individual's signature from the Texas Facilities Commission (TFC) to obtain the loan in 2021. By 2023, he allegedly defaulted on the loan and later provided the company with a tenant estoppel certificate, falsely claiming that the TFC had a valid lease agreement.

The TFC's director confirmed that the documents presented by Herrero were fraudulent and that no agency, including the Texas Attorney General’s Office, was involved in any lease at the Grand Prairie property. The victim company foreclosed on the property in November 2024, reporting a loss exceeding $1 million.

The indictment states that the victim company would not have agreed to the loan terms had they known the documents were fraudulent. Herrero has faced other legal issues in the past, including the closure of the original CommonWealth property in 2025. Efforts to reach Herrero for comment were unsuccessful.