{"id":308301,"date":"2026-05-25T20:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308301\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:15:07","slug":"sheriff-east-texas-sex-offender-charged-with-drug-possession-registry-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308301\/","title":{"rendered":"SHERIFF: East Texas sex offender charged with drug possession, registry violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An East Texas man faces charges of failing to register as a sex offender and drug possession after a deputies&#8217; vehicle stop revealed meth and marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON COUNTY, Texas \u2014 An East Texas sex offender accused of failing to register and having drugs was arrested on Sunday in Houston County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Houston County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, deputies responded to a call about a suspicious vehicle blocking the roadway on County Road 4015 but there was no driver. Another vehicle showed up and dropped off the owner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbs19.tv\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Officials say that deputies noticed a strong odor of marijuana as the man got out of the vehicle. Further inspection found suspected marijuana hidden in a silver canteen. A search of that canteen found a baggie with a clear, crystal-like substance that field tested positive for methamphetamine, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>He was also identified as a registered sex offender, who had not been registered his vehicle on the sex offender registry as required by law for seven months.<\/p>\n<p>He is charged with failure to comply sex offender registration life\/annually enhanced because of previous convictions for violating the statute. He was also charged with possession of marijuana and possession of a controlled substance, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An East Texas man faces charges of failing to register as a sex offender and drug possession after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-308301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308301","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=308301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}