Eastern District of Texas

Houston man sentenced for drug trafficking in East Texas

A Houston man was sentenced to federal prison for trafficking drugs through the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston on Dec. 8.

Houston man pleads to selling drugs in Beaumont

Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston announced Oct. 20 that Michael Tran, 31, of Houston, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine in Beaumont two years earlier. According to court documents, on Oct.

Former mayor, husband sentenced

Former Richardson Mayor Laura Jordan, and the land developer she married after a federal investigation began, have been sentenced for public corruption convictions in the Eastern District of Texas, U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston announced this past week.

Red Power Ranger, cohorts charged with paycheck protection fraud

Nineteen individuals, including one known to prosecutors as Red Power Ranger, are named in a federal indictment charging them with violations in the Eastern District of Texas, U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston announced May 18.

Government seeks $3.4 million penalty from Orange company

The Texas Attorney General's Office, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice, named E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. and Performance Materials, NA, Inc., in an environmental lawsuit filed on Oct. 13 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Beaumont engineer sentenced for $13 million COVID-relief fraud

Beaumont engineer Shashank Rai, 31, has been sentenced for his participation in a scheme to file two fraudulent loan applications seeking more than $13 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid,...

Beaumont carjacker sentenced

Dec. 2, a 24-year-old Beaumont man was sentenced to federal prison for violent crime violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox. Tremaurice Arthur Randall pleaded guilty on Aug.