Starr Ann Brocato, Methamphetamine Trafficking, Texas 2025

Methamphetamine Traffickers Face Life in Federal Prison

BEAUMONT, Texas – In a shocking turn of events, a Jefferson County man and woman have been charged with drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas.

Starr Ann Brocato, 34, of Nederland, and John Wayne Brooks, 47, of Port Neches, were named in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Texas charging them with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.

The indictment alleges that from September to November 2025, Brocato and Brooks were involved in a conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Texas and elsewhere.

If convicted, the defendants each face up to life in federal prison.

This prosecution is part of the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) initiative established by Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion. The HSTF is a whole-of-government partnership dedicated to eliminating criminal cartels, foreign gangs, transnational criminal organizations, and human smuggling and trafficking rings operating in the United States and abroad.

The case is being investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Lee.

A federal indictment is not evidence of guilt. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

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