{"id":240363,"date":"2026-04-08T13:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240363\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:17:11","slug":"fort-worth-man-sentenced-to-40-years-for-drugging-and-fatally-assaulting-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240363\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth man sentenced to 40 years for drugging and fatally assaulting woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Fort Worth man who <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TarrantCountyDA\/status\/2041585091210592483?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:drugged and fatally assaulted a woman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;drugged and fatally assaulted a woman&quot;}\" class=\"link \">drugged and fatally assaulted a woman<\/a> was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Monday, April 6, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kaleb Mickens, 34, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault\/family violence for the brutal assault and drugging of Sheila Cuevas that led to her death, the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney\u2019s Office said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mickens called 911 on Oct. 8, 2023, to falsely report that Cuevas had been attacked by his dog, Soldier, and was no longer breathing, prosecutors said. The dog was euthanized, but animal control officers later determined that it had nothing to do with the victim\u2019s injuries and death, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mickens, who went by the nickname \u201cCash Cartier,\u201d was well known in the multi-level marketing company IM Academy, where \u201che lured young people into joining his training team with the promise of making thousands of dollars,\u201d prosecutors said in the release. \u201cHe used his perceived wealth and status to manipulate men and women with threats and promises while hiding his very violent private persona.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several women delivered impact statements at Monday\u2019s sentencing hearing that included details of \u201ctorment, torture, manipulation and sexual assault,\u201d according to the DA\u2019s Office. \u201cEach shared their message of survival and personal devastation that Cuevas did not survive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cuevas\u2019 brother addressed the defendant and said, \u201cthere can be no justice that brings Sheila back, but there can be outcomes, and there can be accountability and you deserve this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\ud83d\udea8 More breaking news:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u25fd\ufe0f Sign up for Star-Telegram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/newsletters?newsletter=fortworth_breaking_newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:news alerts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;news alerts&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> news alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mickens was also sentenced to 20 years on a probation revocation for an aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury and 15 years for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Dallas County. Each offense involved different women Mickens had been in a relationship with, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The case was investigated by Arlington police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth man who drugged and fatally assaulted a woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1099,92189,116,118,117,92188,92187],"class_list":{"0":"post-240363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-aggravated-assault","9":"tag-brutal-assault","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","12":"tag-fort-worth-news","13":"tag-kaleb-mickens","14":"tag-sheila-cuevas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240363","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=240363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}