A 33-year-old Beaumont man is on trial at the Orange County Courthouse for the state felony of engaging in organized criminal activity. Taurean J. Bass is accused of being the driver of a pickup truck during a military-style home invasion of a drug house on Ridgemont Drive in December.
The trial is being held before Judge Dennis Powell in the 163rd State District Court.
Police said four men in a pickup truck drove up to the house at 3733 Ridgemont Drive. Three of the men broke inside the house and began a fire-fight with the three people inside, who were also armed.
35-year-old Francisco Sanchez was shot inside the house and died in the yard. One man inside the house suffered several gunshot wounds but has recovered.
Police reported that hundreds of prescription pills, liquid PCP, a seven-pound bale of marijuana and numerous baggies of marijuana were found inside the house. A 35-year-old mother and her 21-year-old daughter were arrested that night for drug charges.
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