Feds arrest East Texas police chief for role in meth ring
Federal and state law enforcement officials arrested an East Texas police chief in connection with his alleged role in a methamphetamine trafficking ring, U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman of the Western District of Texas announced.
Normangee Police Chief Joseph Ray "Jody" Navarro, 40, is in federal custody, charged with one count of intentionally exceeding authorized access to a protected computer, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.
According to a criminal complaint filed Aug. 22 and unsealed today, the Madisonville resident used a law enforcement computer system to aid the alleged meth trafficker.
In May 2013, Navarro ran a background check on a name supplied to him by suspected methamphetamine trafficker and Normangee resident Brenda Antanette Evans, 45. A separate but related criminal complaint charges Evans and 25–year-old Joshua Troy Thomas, also of Normangee, with one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
More at http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Feds-arrest-East-Texas-police-chief-for-role-in-4769172.php?cmpid=hpts .
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Death by boredom.
That condition is common in many parts of Texas.
My mom got the hell out of Leon County and went to college back before World War II. And met Dad eventually in Houston.
This guy is not the first, nor the last, police chief to be indicted on meth charges in East Texas.
I have a cousin who lives in the Normangee--he isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. He ended up having a stroke a few years ago and his family is struggling now.
I drove through there a couple of times each year on Texas 39 since I liked being in the forest and it was a good road for catnip combustion. 
I also drove through on Old San Antonio Road a few times also.