Was federal judge Henry Caldwell arrested by Feds in Texas

1. Name confusion: similar names, different persons

Reporting in the sources documents a man named Jeffery or Jeffrey Henry Caldwell who was arrested in connection with murders and later executed in Texas, not a federal judge; the execution and arrest details appear repeatedly in execution reports and criminal case law summaries ^{[1] [2] [3]}. Those items show “Jeffery/Jeffrey Henry Caldwell” as a defendant or petitioner in criminal and post‑conviction proceedings, which can easily be conflated with a judicial title if readers skim headlines or social posts ^{[1] [3]}.

2. What the record actually says about Jeffery/Jeffrey Henry Caldwell

Primary materials in the search results describe Jeffery (or Jeffrey) Henry Caldwell as a criminal defendant who was arrested after bodies were found, gave a statement to police, pursued habeas litigation, and was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, for multiple murders — facts documented in execution reports and appellate opinions ^{[2] [1] [3]}. Those sources detail his criminal history and post‑conviction litigation, and they make clear he was a defendant, not a member of the federal judiciary ^{[3] [2]}.

3. No source identifies a “Federal Judge Henry Caldwell” arrested by federal agents

A thorough read of the provided documents yields no authority or press release that says a federal judge named Henry Caldwell was arrested by federal law enforcement in Texas; the DOJ press release included in the results describes the arrest of a different Texas state judge (Rodolfo “Rudy” Delgado) on bribery allegations and makes no mention of any “Henry Caldwell” who is a federal judge ^[5]. Likewise, court opinions and local reporting in the packet focus on bail‑hearing litigation in Caldwell County and an injunction by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman, again not an arrest of a federal judge named Henry Caldwell ^{[4] [6] [7]}.

4. Federal judicial action in Caldwell County is about open bail hearings, not arrests of judges

Several pieces document a federal judge (Judge Robert Pitman) ordering Caldwell County to open bail hearings to the public after litigation by news organizations and advocacy groups — a federal judicial ruling about court access, not an arrest of any judge named Caldwell ^{[4] [6] [7]}. That federal involvement may be misread by some as “a federal judge in Caldwell County” when in fact the judge issuing relief is a federal magistrate/judge acting on a civil First Amendment and due‑process claim ^{[4] [6]}.

5. There are, separately, legitimate reports of Texas judges charged or investigated

The search results include legitimate federal and state enforcement actions against judges in Texas — for example the DOJ announcement about a state judge arrested on bribery allegations and news of another judge indicted after courtroom misconduct — but those items reference named state judges (Rodolfo Delgado and a Bexar County judge) and not anyone called Henry Caldwell or a federal judge of that name ^{[5] [8]}. This reality illustrates how accurate headlines about judicial arrests can be co‑opted into false specific claims when names are garbled.

6. Why the false claim likely spreads

Two dynamics explain how a false claim that “federal judge Henry Caldwell” was arrested could propagate: the existence of a convicted person named Jeffrey/Jeffery Henry Caldwell in high‑profile execution and appellate records creates searchable overlap of “Henry” and “Caldwell” ^{[1] [2]}, and contemporaneous coverage of arrests or indictments of other judges in Texas provides plausible headlines for social amplification — but the available sources do not connect those threads into the asserted event ^{[5] [8]}.

7. Reporting limitations and open questions

The conclusion is constrained by the supplied documents: the sources do not include every possible newswire or local arrest log, so it is not possible from this packet alone to prove absolutely that no arrest of a federal judge named Henry Caldwell has occurred at any time; what can be affirmed is that among the provided, relevant materials there is no factual support for the claim that a federal judge Henry Caldwell was arrested by federal agents in Texas ^{[1] [2] [5] [4]}.

Conclusion

Given the materials reviewed, the specific assertion that a “federal judge Henry Caldwell” was arrested by federal authorities in Texas is unsupported: the documents instead describe a convicted murderer named Jeffery/Jeffrey Henry Caldwell and separate, unrelated enforcement actions involving other judges and federal court orders about bail hearings — none identify a federal judge by that name as an arrestee ^{[1] [2] [5] [4]}.