Fort Hood Soldier Avoids Jail Time
A Fort Hood soldier who pleaded guilty to felony family-violence strangulation will serve no jail or prison time after a Texas judge placed him on 10 years of deferred-adjudication community supervision.
Pfc. Jimmy Lee Rodriguez was assigned to the 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade at Fort Hood when he was arrested in July 2025, according to a statement the brigade provided to The Salty Soldier. The Army said Rodriguez's command was aware of the arrest and had taken additional actions that it would not publicly disclose.
Official Coryell County court dockets show Rodriguez faced two separate third-degree felony cases.
One charged him with assault of a pregnant person. The second charged him with assault of a family or household member by impeding breathing or circulation.
New sentencing records obtained by The Salty Soldier show Rodriguez ultimately pleaded guilty to the strangulation charge.
Judge Grant Kinsey did not impose jail or prison time. Instead, Rodriguez was placed on 10 years of deferred-adjudication community supervision and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and $339 in court costs.
Deferred adjudication has an important legal distinction.
Rodriguez entered a guilty plea, but the judge deferred further proceedings without formally adjudicating him guilty. Under Texas law, a judge can use deferred adjudication after receiving a guilty or no-contest plea, hearing evidence supporting guilt and determining that community supervision is appropriate.
The separate pregnancy-related assault charge was also addressed.
According to the newly obtained records, Rodriguez admitted guilt to the unadjudicated offense of assaulting a pregnant person and asked the court to consider that conduct when determining his punishment in the strangulation case.
Texas law specifically allows a defendant, with prosecutors' consent, to admit guilt to an unadjudicated offense and have it considered at sentencing. Once the court lawfully takes that offense into account, the state is barred from later prosecuting it separately.
The woman involved asked not to be publicly identified. She told The Salty Soldier that she was also serving on active duty at the time and was approximately six months pregnant.
She has since left the military with an honorable discharge.
Rodriguez was arrested by Copperas Cove police on July 25, 2025. A Coryell County grand jury later indicted him on both felony charges.
County court records independently confirm Rodriguez's name, the two case numbers, the charges and Judge Kinsey's involvement.
Before the outcome was known, the woman told The Salty Soldier she had been informed that Rodriguez was seeking probation and that the prosecutor opposed that outcome.
Those conversations are not documented in the public court records currently available, and the sentencing records obtained by the publication do not establish what punishment prosecutors actually requested during the hearing.
The records also do not explain why Kinsey chose deferred adjudication rather than incarceration.
The plea was described as an open plea, meaning the judge—not a predetermined plea agreement—decided what punishment Rodriguez would receive.
The Army previously confirmed that Rodriguez belonged to the 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade and said the command had taken unspecified additional action after his arrest.
What those actions were, and Rodriguez's current military status following the guilty plea, have not been publicly disclosed.
Sources: Coryell County District Court records; Texas Penal Code; The Salty Soldier; U.S. Army
(Source: OAF Nation)
