{"id":203643,"date":"2026-03-13T22:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/203643\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:01:07","slug":"officer-gets-10-year-sentence-for-smuggling-meth-into-texas-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/203643\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer gets 10-year sentence for smuggling meth into Texas prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/jail-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">BEAUMONT, Texas &#8211; A correctional officer for a federal prison in Texas has been sentenced to 10 years&#8217; confinement for smuggling multiple drugs, including meth, into the facility.<\/p>\n<p>   Texas prison officer sentenced <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Martel Devante Gilliam, 22, of Beaumont, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and was sentenced to federal prison by U.S. District Judge Marcia A. Crone on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Gilliam, who worked at the \u00a0Correctional Complex (FCC) in Beaumont, was identified in 2024 as a source of illegal drugs in the prison, the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office, Eastern District of Texas, said in a Friday release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">On March 8, 2024, a drug sniffing dog alerted to drugs in Gilliam&#8217;s car at the prison. According to the release, a search of the car found 125 grams of methamphetamine; 28 grams of cocaine; 459 grams of synthetic marijuana; vacuum sealed packages of tobacco and marijuana; $5,700 cash; and a pistol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office, Eastern District of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article BEAUMONT, Texas &#8211; A correctional officer for a federal prison in Texas has been sentenced to 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1046,223,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":["post-203643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203643","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=203643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}