Feds arrest East Texas police chief for role in meth ring
Federal and state law enforcement officials arrested an East Texas police chief in connection with his alleged role in a methamphetamine trafficking ring, U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman of the Western District of Texas announced.
Normangee Police Chief Joseph Ray "Jody" Navarro, 40, is in federal custody, charged with one count of intentionally exceeding authorized access to a protected computer, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.
According to a criminal complaint filed Aug. 22 and unsealed today, the Madisonville resident used a law enforcement computer system to aid the alleged meth trafficker.
In May 2013, Navarro ran a background check on a name supplied to him by suspected methamphetamine trafficker and Normangee resident Brenda Antanette Evans, 45. A separate but related criminal complaint charges Evans and 25year-old Joshua Troy Thomas, also of Normangee, with one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
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