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Texas City man sentenced to probation for hiding woman's body in car trunk

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1 year ago

March 5, 2025

Texas City man sentenced to probation for hiding woman's body in car trunk

GALVESTON COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) — A Texas City man was sentenced to probation after he hid a woman’s body in the trunk of her car, according to the Galveston County District Attorney’s Office.

On Tuesday, Christopher Lee Maldonado, who was accused of a second-degree felony, was indicted for tampering with a corpse for concealing the body of Angela Mitchell in the trunk of her car.

The Galveston County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Maldonado was a former jailer and relieved of duty after being arrested and charged with assault by Texas City police in 2019.

Former GCSO deputy arrested in connection to woman’s body found in her trunk, police say

In 2022, Mitchell’s decomposing body was discovered in Texas City in the trunk of her own vehicle. Her friends started to worry when she did not come to pick up her baby boy.

Her cousin used the Find My Friends app to track Mitchell’s iPhone to its last known ping, which was near Maldonado’s home.

On May 11, 2022, Texas City police found Mitchell’s body on 4th Avenue in Texas City.

According to Texas City police, Mitchell was a sex worker whose last known employment was on May 5, 2022, at Maldonado’s home in Lago Mar.

Because of the decomposition, the medical examiner was unable to identify the cause of death. Nonetheless, they ruled out overdose and death from natural causes. The cause of Mitchell’s death is still unknown.

Maldonado’s trial began on Feb. 26. Judge Jeth Jones ordered Maldonado to serve 120 days in jail followed by 10 years of probation.

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Judge orders DHS to release Maine teen from Texas facility

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12 hours ago

May 7, 2026

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Judge orders DHS to release Maine teen from Texas facility

PORTLAND (WGME) – A Portland woman who has been held in a Texas ICE facility for more than six months is reportedly set to be released by Friday.

That’s according to Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, who traveled to the facility this week to demand that ICE release 19-year-old Olivia Andre.

Pingree says a federal district court judge ordered Andre to be released no later than Friday.

Andre and her family were arrested by ICE when they were seeking asylum in Canada.

DHS previously said Andre is in the United States illegally but didn’t explain why the rest of her family was released and she wasn’t.

Pingree called the conditions at the facility inhumane, and Andre’s lawyer says her physical and mental wellbeing deteriorated from not having access to clean drinking water, palatable food and appropriate medical care.

“Olivia and her family should never have been detained. The federal court ordered her release because the Trump administration had no lawful basis for detaining her,” Pingree said. “She suffered in detention for six months in violation of federal law and the U.S. Constitution’s protections.”

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