All posts by Laura Smith, Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office
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High-Risk New Year’s Travel Period met with Countywide DWI Enforcement
During the New Year’s holiday, one of the busiest and highest-risk travel periods of the year, law enforcement...
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New Year’s DWI Enforcement begins December 31 through January 3
The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, in coordination with the Montgomery County DWI Task Force, comprised of local...
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Digital Trail leads to 40-Year Prison Sentence
A Montgomery County jury has sentenced Keith Peterson, of Beaumont, to decades in prison after convicting him on...
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A Lifetime of Accountability: Offender to Serve 75-Year Day-for-Day Sentence
On December 10, 2025, a Montgomery County jury convicted Walter Hernandez-Martinez, 43, of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a...
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Violent Domestic Abuser sentenced to 50 Years
On November 18, 2025, a Montgomery County jury found 35-year-old Patrick Anthony Currie guilty of Assault Family Violence...
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Digital Trail leads to 24-Year Sentence for Montgomery County Child Exploitation Offender
On October 29, 2025, in the 435th District Court, Judge Kaycee Jones sentenced Zachary David Johnson, 23, to...
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Governor Abbott appoints Mike R. Holley as Montgomery County District Attorney
Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Michael R. “Mike” Holley as the new Montgomery County District Attorney, following the...
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MCDAO Honored as TPWD Prosecutor of the Year
The Texas Game Wardens, serving all 254 counties statewide, hosted their annual awards ceremony on October 23, 2025,...
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Judge delivers Life Sentence, telling Courtroom: ‘Hope belongs with the Survivors’
“They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.” Those were the words spoken by...
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Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office named 2025 Prosecutor of the Year by Texas Parks and Wildlife
The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office has been recognized by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Law Enforcement...
