AUSTIN MAN charged with running a sex trafficking ring and dealing cocaine, meth, MDMA, and Adderall -- caught fleeing police in a car after firing a gun -- just walked out with a 2-year deal and watched more than a dozen felonies vanish in a single afternoon.
Kaden Caro has 62 cases in the Travis County courts. In 2024, DPS arrested him after a vehicle chase that ended in a crash and an injured victim. (See video below.)
Officers found him with a gun he wasn't allowed to have as a felon, plus cocaine, meth, Adderall, and Xanax he was selling. He was indicted on a stack of charges, including trafficking and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
This April, DA Garza's office let him plead to two counts and dropped almost everything else from that arrest and others:
⢠Sex trafficking - waived in the plea
⢠Dealing cocaine - dismissed
⢠Dealing meth - dismissed
⢠Dealing MDMA - no charges
⢠Dealing Adderall - dismissed
⢠Robbery - dismissed
⢠Gun as a felon, twice - dismissed
⢠Tampering with evidence - dismissed
⢠Unlawful restraint, exposing the victim to serious injury - dismissed
⢠Fleeing police in a vehicle, twice - dismissed
⢠A 2021 home invasion charged as burglary plus two aggravated assaults - dismissed
He pleaded to firing a gun and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Back in 2023, Caro sat on an ankle monitor for an aggravated assault on a mother in a family violence case. A GPS company flagged him twice driving back onto her block, within 200 yards of where she lived, in violation of his protective order. The assault charge was no-billed. The protective order violations were quietly folded into the district court and then dismissed.
Across 62 cases and 15 years -- robberies, assaults, guns, drug dealing, a trafficking charge -- Caro has never once faced a jury. Every felony ended in a dismissal, a reduction, or a plea.