12NewsNow says Judge Raquel West sentenced Caden James Fontenette to 25 years on March 10. KFDM's March 17 story says she sentenced Caden Fontenette today and spells the store differently.

March 10, on 12NewsNow and the Port Arthur News, and today, on a KFDM story dated March 17, are not the same day. A guilty plea with no agreed punishment is what all three say the judge sentenced, and they do not use the same words for that. Twenty-five years, with parole eligibility at one half, is the term. KFDM says the half-time rule applies because a deadly weapon was used. The other pages do not print that reason. The other two people are not named here.

12NewsNow, by Brett Strahan, published at 4:06 p.m. CDT on March 17, 2026, and updated at 6:33 p.m. CDT, reported that Jefferson County District Attorney Keith Giblin said Caden James Fontenette was sentenced March 10 by Judge Raquel West in the 252nd Criminal District Court after pleading guilty to aggravated robbery. It says the sentence was imposed without an agreed punishment recommendation from either side. It says, according to the Nederland Police Department, Fontenette and two others robbed the Bulldog Express convenience store on Twin City Highway at Helena in October 2025, that the suspects used a firearm and assaulted a store clerk, and that surveillance video captured one of the suspects brandishing what appeared to be an assault-style rifle and striking the clerk. It says police reported that three suspects were arrested the same day. It says he will be eligible for parole after serving half of the 25-year sentence, authorities said. It does not print October 10. It does not print a deadly weapon as the reason for the half-time rule. It does not print the word juveniles. It does not describe an outburst. The Port Arthur News, published at 3:25 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, 2026, with no zone, says Giblin announced that on March 10th, 18-year-old Caden James Fontenette of Port Arthur was sentenced to 25 years by Jefferson County District Judge Raquel West. It says West previously accepted the plea of guilty to the felony offense of Aggravated Robbery before sentencing him without an agreed punishment recommendation by the parties. It says, according to Nederland police, in October of 2025 he and two other subjects robbed the Bulldog Express on Twin City Highway at gunpoint and assaulted a store clerk, and that video shows one of the subjects brandishing what appears to be an assault-styled rifle before using it to strike the clerk. Assault-styled, with a hyphen and a d, is the Port Arthur News. Assault-style, on 12NewsNow, is not that spelling. It does not print Helena. It does not print the 252nd. It says he will be eligible for parole when his time served equals one-half of his sentence. It does not print a deadly-weapon reason. It does not print juveniles. Without an agreed punishment recommendation, on 12NewsNow and the Port Arthur News, is the punishment line. KFDM, by Scott Lawrence, Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at 12:46 p.m. and updated at 6:32 p.m., with no zone, says Judge Raquel West and the district attorney's office cited recent violence today in the sentencing of Caden Fontenette, 18, of Port Arthur, to 25 years for Aggravated Robbery in the October 10, 2025 holdup of a clerk at the Bulldog Convenience Store on Twin City Highway at Helena in Nederland. Today, on a story dated March 17, and March 10, on 12NewsNow and the Port Arthur News, are not the same day. Bulldog Convenience Store, on KFDM, and Bulldog Express, on 12NewsNow and the Port Arthur News, are not the same name. Caden Fontenette, on KFDM, and Caden James Fontenette, on the other two, are not the same full name. October 10, 2025, is KFDM. October 2025, on 12NewsNow, and October of 2025, on the Port Arthur News, do not print the day. KFDM says he must serve at least half of the sentence before he is eligible for parole because he used a deadly weapon. That because-clause is not on the other two pages. KFDM says two juveniles are also charged with the crime. 12NewsNow says two others. The Port Arthur News says two other subjects. Juveniles, on KFDM, is not a word the other two print. The other two people are not named here. The clerk is not named here.

The plea and the courtroom reaction are not printed the same way. KFDM says he had entered a guilty plea which wasn't part of a plea agreement, and that just after she announced the 25-year sentence there was an outburst and shouting in the back of the courtroom where the defendant's family was sitting, that bailiffs moved to that area, and that the relatives left. An earlier paragraph on the same page says a family member reacted and the family members left. A family member, and the relatives, are both on that page. Fox News, by Julia Bonavita, published March 19, 2026, at 1:32 p.m. EDT, says he was sentenced to 25 years on March 10 after pleading guilty, according to 12 News Now, and that a member of his family became emotional and began shouting, resulting in the individual being escorted out. One individual escorted out, on Fox News, and relatives who left, on KFDM, are not the same account of who went. 12NewsNow and the Port Arthur News, both dated March 17, do not describe that reaction. Fox News's lede calls him a teenage defendant convicted of a violent robbery, and the next sentence says he pleaded guilty. Convicted, and pleaded guilty, are both on that page. Its caption dates the hearing March 10, 2026, and credits a court video to the 252nd District Court of Texas. It says he and two others used a gun at a Bulldog Express in Nederland in October 2025. It does not print Helena, October 10, James, or juveniles. It says he is 18. KFDM quotes West, before the term, that "we're tired of it and there's got to be something done," and, after the term, "I understand that this is harsh, and I know you believe that this is harsh, but I think that this is necessary." Fox News prints those harsh sentences and a longer version of the earlier remarks, including a bracketed "[to]" that is not in the KFDM quotation, and it says she described him as "high-risk." KFDM says "the pre-sentence report shows you're at a high-risk level." High-risk, on Fox News, and a high-risk level on a pre-sentence report, on KFDM, are not the same phrase. 12NewsNow quotes defense attorney Charles Rojas that "he's got a limited criminal history, though. I believe this is his first felony," and that probation remained an option. KFDM says Rojas asked the judge to grant probation. The Port Arthur News does not print Rojas. 12NewsNow quotes Assistant District Attorney Tommy L. Coleman, in a statement, that the office will pursue as much prison time as it can convince a judge or a jury to hand out, and, in court, that picking up a gun with the intent to commit violence means picking up a 15-, 20-, 25-year prison sentence. KFDM's quotation of lead prosecutor Tommy Coleman uses "15, 20, 25" with no hyphens. The Port Arthur News prints the statement and spells him Tommy L. Coleman. It does not print the in-court begging. A statement and an in-court argument are not the same text. The 25 years are the term those pages report after the guilty plea. The March 10 date is 12NewsNow, the Port Arthur News, and Fox News. KFDM's March 17 story says today and does not print March 10. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.