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Wrong way driver indicted on two counts of intoxication manslaughter
A Jefferson County grand jury has indicted a Brownsville man on two counts of intoxication manslaughter in connection with the crash that killed two women in June. Salvador Ramos Gamez was traveling south in the northbound lane of U.S. 69 near mile marker 534 when he struck another vehicle head-on, killing the occupants on June 14. […] The post Wrong way driver indicted on two counts of intoxication manslaughter appeared first on Port Arthur News.
Clayton Foreman now serving his capital murder life sentence in TDCJ
Jefferson County — 180 miles now separate a capital murder suspect from the scene of the crime, a killing many consider one of the worst in Jefferson County history. Clayton Bernard Foreman is finally in a state prison, the Beto Unit in Tennessee Colony, east of Waco and north of Huntsville, following his March 20 conviction for capital murder in the killing of Mary Catherine Edwards.
Grand jury takes no action in fatal Beaumont shooting
Beaumont — KFDM News has learned a Jefferson County grand jury investigated a fatal officer-involved shooting in Beaumont and decided to take no action in the case. That means the grand jury determined the evidence supported the officers' use of force when they shot and killed a man with a gun July 15 in the Oaks Historic District.
Southeast Texas has received a total of $76 million for regional mitigation projects
Southeast Texans soon will be the beneficiary of an additional $76 million for flood mitigation projects in Jasper, Jefferson and Orange counties — the most recent steps in the largest disaster recovery the country has ever seen. The new funding was just part of a recent celebration in Jefferson...
Sexual assault of a child gets Nederland man 5 years in prison, 10 years on probation
BEAUMONT, Texas — A Nederland man has been sentenced to five years in prison and 10 years on probation after a Jefferson County jury found him guilty of sexual assault of a child. John Michael Grant, 45, of Nederland, was found guilty Thursday evening in Jefferson County's Criminal District...
Brownsville man indicted on intoxication manslaughter charges for fiery June 2024 wreck that killed two Beaumont women
BEAUMONT, Texas — A 51-year-old South Texas man has been indicted on two counts of intoxication manslaughter charges after two women in their 20s died in a fiery June 2024 wreck in mid-county. Salvador Gamez, 51, of Brownsville, is accused of driving a pickup truck the wrong way in...
Woodville man indicted for deadly hit-and-run
A 34-year-old Woodville man has been indicted for a mid-2023 hit-and-run. Johnny Manuel Jacobo-Ramon in mid-June was indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury for intoxicated manslaughter with a vehicle and an accident involving death. The hit-and-run of a pedestrian was reported on July 16, 2023 in the 3700 block...
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