The former leader of a Conroe testing lab and two others pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge and admitted to falsifying dozens of test results to make wastewater appear clean enough to discharge into Texas waterways.
Derek McCoy appeared before U.S. District Judge David Hittner on Thursday with two co-defendants — his former employee Deena Higginbotham, and his former client John Montgomery, who worked as a compliance coordinator for more than two dozen water boards.
For years, McCoy and Higginbotham faked test results for Montgomery through a “backdoor” in the lab’s digital system that hid the changes from authorities…