{"id":398956,"date":"2026-08-06T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398956\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:02:09","slug":"man-gets-10-years-for-posing-as-attorney-in-tarrant-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398956\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gets 10 years for posing as attorney in Tarrant County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Ramond Davis Jr., 60, was accused of posing as an attorney to scam Tarrant County inmates and their families out of thousands of dollars, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>            Tarrant County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/p>\n<p>A 60-year-old North Texas man <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article315104312.html\">pleaded guilty to posing<\/a> as a licensed attorney to scam families of inmates in the Tarrant County Jail out of thousands of dollars, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Ramond Davis Jr., of Fort Worth, was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TarrantCountyDA\/status\/2084982529522630989?s=20\">sentenced to 10 years<\/a> in prison for falsely holding himself out as a lawyer, the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney\u2019s Office said in a social media post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Davis was arrested in March after investigators with the Tarrant County Sheriff\u2019s Office determined he was not a licensed attorney and had targeted multiple victims.<\/p>\n<p>Click to resize<\/p>\n<p>According to the DA\u2019s Office, Davis contacted people incarcerated at the jail and offered them legal services, then arranged to meet with the inmates\u2019 families to collect payments of $3,000 in exchange for the services.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785988929_178_ST_Shambhavi Rimal.jpeg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Shambhavi Rimal\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/294400689\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shambhavi Rimal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Shambhavi covers crime, law enforcement and other breaking news in Fort Worth and Tarrant County. She graduated from the University of North Texas and previously covered a variety of general assignment topics in West Texas. She grew up in Nepal.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ramond Davis Jr., 60, was accused of posing as an attorney to scam Tarrant County inmates and their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-398956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398956","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=398956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}