Texas prosecutors alleged in court filings that influencer Ashley Lopez-Trevino, known online as Ash Trevino, maintained romantic relationships with approximately 50 to 75 inmates housed in Texas Department of Criminal Justice facilities over several years, including men incarcerated for aggravated robbery and murder.
The claim appears in documents connected to her welfare fraud case. Lopez-Trevino, 37, of the Venus and Ellis County area, pleaded guilty on August 5, 2026, to welfare fraud and fraudulent securing of document execution. Under the agreement she received two years of community supervision, 120 hours of community service, an anti-theft program, financial counseling, and an order to pay $16,799.95 in restitution to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
Prosecutors also criticized her TikTok activity in the filings, describing it as soliciting monetary contributions in exchange for health updates about a dependent and posting sexually explicit videos and livestreams. Lopez-Trevino built a large following by openly discussing her preference for dating incarcerated men, a pattern that earned her the online label “inmate hopper.”
She was first arrested on December 17, 2025, near her home in Venus after a local officer confirmed active felony warrants issued through the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office. Venus Police Chief James Groom said the officer approached her in her front yard without incident. She posted a $15,000 bond and was released. In livestreams afterward she told viewers she planned to fight the charges and remarked that she dates inmates rather than becoming one.
In March 2026 prosecutors moved to revoke her bond, alleging she violated conditions by drinking alcohol on one occasion and purchasing it on another. They said the information came from her own social media posts. She was briefly taken into custody again, released the same day under a higher $25,000 bond, an ankle monitor, an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, and bans on alcohol and places that primarily serve it. Her legal team denied the violations at the time.
Lopez-Trevino, born January 17, 1989, is the mother of two teenage daughters. She previously worked in a dental office before focusing full-time on content creation. Public records and her own posts place her in Ellis County. She has spoken at length on livestreams about relationships with men in Texas prisons, at times claiming numbers in the mid-20s to 30 before the higher figure appeared in the court papers.
Among the relationships documented in her earlier social media activity was one with Isaiah Gonzalez, who was serving a lengthy sentence that included convictions for aggravated robbery, arson, and murder. She posted about engagement, prison visits with her daughters, and tattoos marking the relationship. She later married Noi Trevino while he was incarcerated following a 2015 stabbing case. Other names that surfaced in her content and online discussions included men convicted of violent offenses, though the court filings did not list individuals by name.
The restitution payments are scheduled to begin in September at roughly $780 per month. An attorney for Lopez-Trevino did not immediately respond to requests for comment after the plea. Court records and reporting from the period of her arrests confirm the sequence of events in Ellis County and the conditions attached to her release.
Lopez-Trevino continues to post on Instagram and Snapchat under accounts that have drawn hundreds of thousands of followers. The prosecutorial description of her contacts with Texas inmates remains the most detailed official accounting to date of the scale of those relationships.
