{"id":84391,"date":"2025-08-20T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/84391\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:30:07","slug":"hereford-chiropractor-accused-of-secretly-recording-female-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/84391\/","title":{"rendered":"Hereford chiropractor accused of secretly recording female patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HEREFORD, Texas (KVII) \u2014 A chiropractor in Hereford is accused of secretly recording a female patient. Police are not sure if there are other victims.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Michael J. Ellis is charged with invasive visual recording.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents obtained by ABC 7 News, Ellis took a photo of the patient&#8217;s butt.<\/p>\n<p>Police started the investigation into Ellis after the victim filed a complaint.<\/p>\n<p>The case was referred to the Deaf Smith County District Attorney\u2019s Office for review. <\/p>\n<p>Due to a potential conflict of interest, the case was transferred to the Castro County District Attorney\u2019s Office for continued review and investigation.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 13, the Castro County District Attorney\u2019s Office presented the case to a Deaf Smith County grand jury, which indicted Ellis on one count of invasive visual recording.<\/p>\n<p> An arrest warrant was issued Monday. Later that same day, Ellis was arrested at his office and booked into the Deaf Smith County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>The Hereford Police Department is continuing to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>If you were a patient of Ellis and believe you may also be a victim of  similar actions, you are urged to call Hereford police at 806-363-7120.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HEREFORD, Texas (KVII) \u2014 A chiropractor in Hereford is accused of secretly recording a female patient. Police are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,50393,50387,50392,50388,50390,84,50386,50389,377,50391],"class_list":["post-84391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-castro-county","tag-chiropractor","tag-deaf-smith-county","tag-dr-michael-j-ellis","tag-female-patient","tag-health","tag-hereford","tag-invasive-visual-recording","tag-medication","tag-police-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}