A 33-year-old Fort Worth man, Lazarus Gomes, has been ordered to serve 25 years in state prison after a judge yanked his probation in a domestic violence case that piled up multiple intimate-partner violence convictions while he was already under court supervision.
Prosecutors said the new offenses were committed while Gomes was on probation for manufacturing or delivering a controlled substance, which meant the case was pulled out of community supervision and sent to state prison time instead. The Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office later released a court transcript and an update on the sentence.
According to a Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office post that included the transcript, Gomes was convicted of multiple intimate-partner violence offenses while on probation and had that probation revoked before he was sentenced. The post said Gomes had been serving probation on the drug case and that the new convictions included assault of a family member with a previous conviction, assault by impeding breathing, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon…