Maleah Davis update: Derion Vence pleads guilty, sentenced to 40 years in prison, officials say
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Derion Vence, who initially reported 4-year-old Maleah Davis missing, was arrested and booked into the Harris County jail in May on suspicion of tampering with a human corpse, according to police. (Houston Police Department)
HOUSTON – Derion Vence pleaded guilty Thursday to tampering with a corpse and injury to a child 4-year-old Maleah Davis and was sentenced to 40 years in prison, officials say.
Vence, 28, dated Maleah’s mother, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg’s Office said in a news release with an update about the case. Vence, Maleah and her little brother were all reported missing the morning of May 4, 2019. When Vence and Maleah’s brother showed up at a hospital late that night, Maleah was not with them. Her remains were found by the side of a road in Arkansas a month after she disappeared.
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2 MS-13 gang members who killed Houston girl as sacrifice get 40 years: DA s office
Diego Hernandez Rivera (left) and Miguel Alvarez Flores (right) (Photos: Harris County District Attorney s Office)
HOUSTON - Two MS-13 gang members who killed a 15-year-old girl in Houston were each sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office announced.
The district attorney s office say Diego Hernandez-Rivera, 22, pleaded guilty to murder in the death of Genesis Cornejo-Alvarado in exchange for 40 years in prison on Monday. Jury selection was about to begin in his trial.
Hernandez-Rivera, who reportedly went by Scary, also pleaded guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in exchange for 12 years in prison. Those sentences will run concurrently.
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HOUSTON A Texas constable has been accused of turning the office s undercover operations into a booze-fueled playground for sexual exploitation, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday by three female deputies.
The deputies, who either work or worked for the Harris County Precinct 1 Constable’s Office in Houston, alleged women were subjected to unwanted touching and kissing, molestation and sexual ridicule during their work with the office’s human trafficking unit.
The lawsuit alleges the office of Constable Alan Rosen set up undercover sting operations that were supposed to ultimately arrest those behind sex trafficking businesses. But those operations turned more into parties where officers drank heavily and the female deputies, who were given little to no training in undercover work, were fondled and kissed by their supervisory officer or were told to give lap dances to other male deputies.