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Pvt. Javier Pantoja Tinoco faces charges for painting racist graffiti on walls and setting fire to washing machines in a barracks laundry room at the Texas Army base, as well a charge of possessing child pornography.

AUSTIN, Texas — A Fort Cavazos soldier charged with murder and another charged as an accomplice in a shooting death will face separate courts-martial in May at the central Texas

A Fort Cavazos soldier charged with murder and another charged as an accomplice in a shooting death will face separate courts-martial in May at the central Texas Army base, according to court records.

The court-martial of a former brigade commander at Fort Cavazos will not begin next week as planned after the judge in the case granted more time to the colonel’s attorneys to prepare following the dismissal of a sexual misconduct charge.

Lt. Col. Jon-Paul Depreo was accused of groping a sergeant under his command and making sexual comments to her when he pleaded guilty to lesser charges Monday in a Fort Johnson, La., courtroom.

Lt. Col. Jon-Paul Depreo went from commanding an engineer battalion at Fort Johnson to prison-bound in less than six months after he pleaded guilty Monday to charges of assault and conduct unbecoming an officer.

The wife of an Army officer claims she was at her home at Fort Cavazos with her daughter while her husband was away training when Col. Jon Meredith came to her house, groped her and made unwanted sexual advances toward her.