Cherokee County, TX:
The Cherokee County District Attorney can prosecute a local man for a missing child no one can find, but CANNOT prosecute a Jacksonville, TX police officer when the decomposed remains of his female victims are found. The dead bodies of women set to testify against Larry Pugh were unearthed by federal authorities, yet the same agencies 'Sworn To Protect' never released the AUTOPSY reports to protect the City of Jacksonville from lawsuits. The women were set to testify against Officer Pugh for rape and retaliation in both the Rusk, TX courthouse and in federal court in Tyler, TX. They were killed and discarded in nearby National Forests prior to when Pugh, who was out of bond at the time, made his first court appearance. East Texas investigators on the case have hidden these women's cause of death since 2006. No one down there gives a shit.
On September 9, 2021 DeAndre Argumon, father of a missing Wells, TX infant pleaded guilty to child abandonment and was sentenced to 15 years in prison (Source: KLTV). The infant went missing in September 2020 and hasn't been seen since.
CHEROKEE COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) - The father of a missing 5-week-old baby has reached a plea agreement in connection with the infant’s September 2020 disappearance.
DeAndre Argumon, father of 5 week old Armaidre Argumon, pleaded guilty to abandoning a child, imminent danger of bodily injury, enhanced. He was sentenced to 15 years for the crime. However, there is an exception in the plea that if other crimes are discovered, Argumon can be prosecuted.
He was also charged with unauthorized use of motor vehicle because, according to the DA, he arrived on scene back in September 2020 in a vehicle that was not his. He was found guilty on a bench trial April 27. He was sentenced to eight years for that crime, which he will serve concurrently with the 15 years sentence he received today for endangering his child. (Source: KLTV)
Deandre Argumon
As part of his plea bargain, Argumon did not disclose the location of the child's body or admit to ANY wrongdoing. Multiple searches and Amber Alerts throughout the area have recovered nothing. Cherokee County District Attorney Elmer Beckworth has proven he can successfully charge a suspect with missing persons, even when a body is not discovered. However, when authorities find the dead bodies of missing women set to testify against a Jacksonville police officer, Elmer Beckworth and the US Attorney's office look the other way. The City and County cannot be sued for the conduct of a local drug addict, but they can be for a police officer who rapes women on the side of the road for kicks.
Larry Pugh
For the record, if a decorated Jacksonville, TX police officer is facing federal rape and retaliation charges, both State and Federal prosecutors are in agreement that they will not bring charges when witnesses go missing. Even when their dead bodies are found. Two Jacksonville women who reported to authorities that they were raped at gunpoint by Officer Larry Pugh were slated to testify against him. They went missing before his trial and their decomposed bodies were found months later. Charges against Larry Pugh for their disappearance were never considered by Cherokee County DA Elmer Beckworth. The District Attorney and US Attorney's office did not want the City of Jacksonville to held liable for the murder of federal witnesses. Officer Pugh served 8 years of a 12 year sentence for Rape and Retaliation in a federal facility. Authorities have closed the case and the cases of the missing women. The witness' dead bodies were discovered in Pugh's old hunting grounds in the National Forest.
Remains identified as 2006 missing person: Woman was possible witness against former Jacksonville, TX officer (Tyler Paper June, 2014)
Authorities say they are treating the death of a Jacksonville, Texas woman whose remains were found earlier this year as a murder investigation, reports CBS affiliate KYTX.
The remains of a woman who disappeared eight years ago after making outcries of sexual abuse against a former Jacksonville police officer have been found, officials reported on Friday. Before her disappearance eight years ago, 26-year-old Shunte Coleman was expected to testify against Jacksonville police officer Larry Pugh, who was being investigated on sexual assault charges.
Shunte Coleman
Skeletal remains of Shunte M. Coleman, who was last seen July 3, 2006, were found on March 12 by a forester in a thickly wooded area in San Augustine County, east of the "T" intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 1196 and County Road 347, officials said Friday in a news release.
In 2007, Alvin Boykin talked to the Tyler Morning Telegraph about the day his friend, Ms. Coleman, left his Jacksonville home on foot. He said then that his home was an ad hoc shelter, offered to anyone needing a place to stay.
Ms. Coleman, a mother of two, had freely come and gone from his residence — but so had a handful of other women needing a boost. So when Ms. Coleman said she was leaving for a while, Boykin watched her go.
She didn't come back. Neither did another frequenter, Terri Renee Troublefield Reyes, who disappeared around the same time as Ms. Coleman. The 38-year-old Athens woman was last seen alive on May 21, 2006, and was found dead and unclothed in Angelina National Forest in fall 2006.
The women knew each other from Boykin's home, and both were pinpointed as potential witnesses to testify against former Jacksonville police officer Larry Pugh.
In 2006, Pugh was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the sexual assault of women while on duty and retaliating against a woman for reporting the crime.
Ms. Coleman and Ms. Reyes both went missing while Pugh was out of jail on bond — between February 2006 and August 2006.
In 2007, Pugh pleaded guilty to perjury for lying about sexually assaulting women while on duty. The next year, he was sentenced to 18 months for perjury. He was sued in two additional lawsuits by eight women claiming they also were sexually assaulted by him while he was an officer.
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