Man indicted by Gregg County grand jury for tampering with human corpse
Updated: 7:12 PM CDT July 3, 2021 An Angleton man is charged with tampering with evidence — a human corpse — in Gregg County. Derek Wayne Pope, 31, is charged with a grand jury indictment for tamper/fabricate physical evidence with intent to impair human corpse. The tampering with physical evidence charge is a second-degree felony. The incident occurred June 23, 2018. According to the indictment, Pope “did then and there knowing that an offense had been committed, namely observing and failing to report a corpse, intentionally and knowingly destroy and conceal evidence,...
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