Trafficker gets prison time
Posted/updated on: July 8, 2026 at 4:34 pm
TYLER – A Brownsboro man has been sentenced to over 15 years in federal prison for trafficking methamphetamine in east Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs.
36-year-old Bradley Korral Gould, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison on July 6.
According to information presented in court, on October 4, 2024, Henderson County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a shooting in Brownsboro, where they found Gould inside his vehicle with a gunshot wound to his upper thigh. While investigating the shooting, deputies located an abandoned backpack on the roadside between Gould’s vehicle and the location of the reported shooting.
Inside the backpack, deputies located 121.3 grams of methamphetamine, 50.86 grams of cocaine, and pills containing fluorofentanyl, a fentanyl analogue. Also, inside the backpack, deputies discovered the title of the vehicle in which Gould was found bearing Gould’s name. Gould admitted that the backpack and its contents belonged to him and agreed to forfeit a pistol found at the location of the shooting.
The case was investigated by the FBI; U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration; and Henderson County Sheriff’s Office and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Lucas Machicek
