{"id":193726,"date":"2026-03-06T19:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193726\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:46:10","slug":"former-houston-isd-teachers-aide-gets-2-years-in-federal-prison-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193726\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Houston ISD teacher&#8217;s aide gets 2 years in federal prison drug trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">SAN ANTONIO, Texas &#8211; A former Houston ISD teacher aide was sentenced to federal prison for being part of a drug trafficking organization, the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office, Western District of Texas said.<\/p>\n<p>   Former HISD educator sentenced to federal prison <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Tonya Vonci Middleton-Harris, 57, will have to serve two years in prison after pleading guilty in October 2024 to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute meth.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Court documents claim Middleton-Harris conspired in June 2021 to traffic 992.4 grams of meth and 536 grams of cocaine. The attorney&#8217;s office says she was stopped by Texas Department of Public Safety agents after being seen receiving two bags of narcotics from drug trafficker, Terry Clay.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Clay had previously been arrested after being found with $11,213 and a pill bottle with 11.2 grams of oxycodone pills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information provided by the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office Western District of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/houston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO, Texas &#8211; A former Houston ISD teacher aide was sentenced to federal prison for being part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-193726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}