A 42-year-old man inside a drug house where a home invasion shoot-out occurred two years ago pleaded guilty Wednesday to being engaged in organized crime. Desrick V. Warren of Orange agreed to the punishment of 45 years in prison.
The home invasion happened at 9 p.m. Friday December 12, 2014, at 3733 Ridgemont Drive. A pickup truck with two Houston men and a Beaumont man driving pulled up to the house. The two Houston men broke through the barred door and a shoot-out ensued. One of the Houston men died in the front yard.
A man who was in the house recovered from 19 gunshot wounds and is still facing charges.
Police found prescription pills, liquid PCP, a seven-pound bale of marijuana and numerous baggies of marijuana in the house.
Assistant District Attorney Krispin Walker said Warren was inside the house and left before police arrived. She said when he was later arrested, he had drugs. After he bonded out of jail in January 2015, he was arrested on federal drug charges the next month in Mississippi. He has been in federal custody since then.
The plea was made before 163rd District Judge Dennis Powell. Powell has also presided over two trials in connection with the shootout. A jury last year gave a punishment of 30 years in prison to 34-year-old Taurean “T.J.” Bass of Beaumont who drove the pickup truck. His charge was upped to an aggravated offense because of the use of a gun.
Another jury in June gave a punishment of 42 years to 37-year-old Kenyatta Walker (no relation to the prosecutor). Walker leased the house and was inside.
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