WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
ALPINE, Texas - A federal jury in Pecos convicted a Monahans man for two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child under 12 and one count of committing a sexual offense while being required to register as a sex offender, announced U.S. Attorney Justin R. Simmons for the Western District of Texas.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Michael Scott Nichols, 55, groomed and sexually abused a minor female from around the age of six years old until she was 11 years old. On Sept. 23, 2024, the Ward County Sheriff's Department responded to a home in Monahans, where a woman rep...