A woman has been arrested nearly a year after the death of her newborn baby, who was found in the back of a garbage truck in northwest Harris County.
Arrest update, August 2024 incident:
Catherine Nicole Innes (8-9-2002) has been charged with Tampering with Evidence-Human Corpse. Innes allegedly discarded her newborn baby in the trash. Innes has been booked in the Harris County Jail. https://t.co/CYJbUxgihw— Ed Gonzalez (@SheriffEd_HCSO) July 21, 2025
On Monday, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said Catherine Innes, 22, has been charged with tampering with a human corpse in the death of her newborn baby boy in 2024.
Jesus Martinez’s body was found at about 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 14, 2024, in the 13200 block of Fountaincrest Court in the Chimney Hill subdivision…