East Texas pimp gets life sentence for trafficking Houston women, girls
East Texas pimp gets life sentence for trafficking Houston women, girls FacebookTwitterEmail David Mearis, 44, of Houston.Texas DPS An East Texas pimp who trafficked children and adults in an “eight-year reign of terror” in Houston was ordered Monday to serve a life sentence in federal prison. David Wayne Mearis, 45, of Orange, was given five concurrent life terms to be followed by 25 years of supervised release if those sentences are ever set aside. U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt also sentenced him to pay nearly $1 million in restitution to multiple victims. The man an FBI officia...