Brad Johnson - Senior Reporter, The Texan Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Try three hundred and fifty pounds of the stuff with
some illegal aliens. Three illegal immigrants, three hundred and fifty
pounds of methampi, I mean, all found near Liberty County's
Colony Ridge settlement just in the last week. There's an
article in The Texan about it. Our reporter, their senior reporter,
Brad Johnson joins us there's never been any good news

(00:22):
coming out of Colony Ridge, and I guess you know
what's going on with Ice right now, and the deportations
just shows us again. You know where a lot of
problems are here in southeast Texas, and they revolve around
Colony Ridge.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
It seems like the settlement keys popping up in the headlines.
You know, you have the flashy one. Yeah, certainly. Where
As you said, there were three illegal immigrants that were
like this sit after a traffic stop and during which
they one of them was round to have a handgun
in his waistband and then admitted to have pounds of

(00:58):
mess that their sites and sure enough all string three
hundred fifty found it, seize it, arrested the three. Turns out,
all three of them have been went there FASTIBLD times
and are out back. You know. So there's the flashy
ones led deported. Well, there's other ones that are less slashy,
with problems that can come with just like that, a
thousand people being dropped into an ex servative county. The

(01:23):
you know, fifty resources there are stressed. The local sheriff
department is in over a manpower wise, and so you've
had the state come in and for a while in
ahead implements law enforcement.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Presence, your phone's got a clipping on spread. We'll try
to still with you as long as long as we can. Here,
did they have the three hundred and fifty pounds of
meth on them? Or did this just did the arrest
lead to the three hundred fifty pounds of meth? I
can't even I'm trying to imagine in my mind what
three hundred and fifty pounds of math looks like.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Its hard to imagine. I think there's a picture that
Sheriff Bobby Raider Liberty. Yeah, and it's a lot of bags. No,
they did not have it on now and he put
out in another site that officers after the trend they
had it then went and sees at a property in
Collefic stops Yep.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Three of them were arrested. They're all in the country lately,
and as I understand that, several of them have been
deported at least four times. Of course, the border has
changed now, so my guess is if you deport them again,
hopefully well, first of all, hopefully they do some prison
time here in the United States, and then when you
do eventually deport them again, hopefully they will be prevented

(02:39):
from coming back into the country.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, that's the idea that we've seen how that's worked
out of handful of years. One of them was charged
with a felony. The other two yests in ice holds,
So I assume they're going to be deported or noon,
depending on how long that takes by the other one
fairly so. Not sure whether they'll put him in in

(03:04):
the Klan court, if he'll toboart him, but yeah, he
is being charged with salony for possession of all that
as well all that illegal substance.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, well, the best bet is to prosecute them and
put them in jail, so at least you can get
them off the streets for a while. Brad, thank you.
Seeing a reporter at the Texan that's Brad Johnson seven
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