Judge revokes probation, sentences LeCaven Jenkins to two 24-month state-jail terms in Jefferson County

The judge in the 252nd District Court in Jefferson County revoked defendant LeCaven Jenkins’s probation and sentenced him to 24 months in state jail on each of two theft-of-a-firearm cases after finding multiple probation violations true at a revocation hearing.

The ruling followed testimony by Jenkins’s probation officer and several police witnesses, and the court’s review of jail incident reports and a pre-sentence packet. The court found most of the alleged technical and new-offense violations true and imposed concurrent state-jail terms with credit for time in custody.

Probation officer Rachel Lopez testified that Jenkins’s urine sample on Feb. 20, 2024, tested positive for methamphetamine, amphetamines and THC and that he had a history of noncompliance. Lopez said Jenkins had been placed on the department’s random-testing DROP program and later sent to ISF tracks; she told the court he completed the ISF programs but continued to use drugs and missed supervision requirements. Lopez testified the office had exhausted available supervision remedies.

Groves and Beaumont police officers described an early-morning March 3, 2024, police…