In a single weekend, U.S. Customs & Border Protection at Texas entry points arrested four men—all wanted on child-sex crime charges. Their captures spanned Brownsville to Laredo, with biometric checks uncovering felony warrants.
Two men from Texas’s Most Wanted Sex Offenders list were caught on consecutive days — Derrick Flowers in Houston and Spencer Giron in Lake Charles. Neither arrest will pay the advertised reward due to tip-eligibility rules.
Texas CBP agents intercepted a vehicle carrying 67.1 lbs of meth and 42.5 lbs of black tar heroin on October 6. The drugs’ combined street value is estimated at $1,331,172.
A Lubbock inmate, Ronnie Garcia, used a contraband prison cell phone to broker meth deals while serving a 15-year sentence. Now he's been sentenced to an additional 405 months, with his girlfriend and an outside accomplice also implicated.