Federal prosecutors say a Honduran national who admitted to a string of armed robberies in Central Texas has been hit with a 31-year federal prison sentence in Austin. The guilty plea and stiff punishment cap off a multi-jurisdictional case that tied together violent convenience store holdups and a robbery at a San Marcos vape and smoke shop.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas publicly announced the sentence in a post on X, describing the conviction as part of the Department of Justice’s Operation Take Back America and tagging law enforcement partners, including the FBI’s San Antonio office, the Austin Police Department, and the Houston Police Department. The post used the hashtag #OperationTakeBackAmerica and credited federal agents and…..