Updated: 7:12 PM CDT July 3, 2021
An Angleton man is charged with tampering with evidence — a human corpse — in Gregg County.
Derek Wayne Pope, 31, is charged with a grand jury indictment for tamper/fabricate physical evidence with intent to impair human corpse. The tampering with physical evidence charge is a second-degree felony.
The incident occurred June 23, 2018.
According to the indictment, Pope “did then and there knowing that an offense had been committed, namely observing and failing to report a corpse, intentionally and knowingly destroy and conceal evidence, namely a corpse, with intent to impair its verity or availability as evidence in any subsequent investigation or official proceeding relating to the offense.”