{"id":114538,"date":"2026-01-12T00:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/114538\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T00:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:47:13","slug":"port-st-lucie-man-arrested-on-alleged-child-sex-crimes-martin-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/114538\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie man arrested on alleged child sex crimes | Martin County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARTIN COUNTY \u2014 Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office have arrested a Port St. Lucie man on alleged child sex crimes.<\/p>\n<p>A Martin County Sheriff\u2019s deputy posed as a 14-year-old girl and communicated with 24-year-old Jamal Howard Jacas.<\/p>\n<p>According to MCSO, during the online conversations, the undercover detective clearly and repeatedly stated she was 14.<\/p>\n<p>Jacas continued to communication despite allegedly being aware of the juvenile\u2019s age.<\/p>\n<p>They agreed to meet in Martin County after being told that the juvenile\u2019s mother would be asleep, according to MCSO.<\/p>\n<p>Jacas was arrested at the meetup located and was charged with:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Traveling to seduce, solicit, or lure a child to commit a sex act<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Unlawful use of a two-way communication device<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Use of a computer to solicit a child to commit a sex act<\/p>\n<p>Jacas was booked into Martin County jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY \u2014 Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office have arrested a Port St. Lucie man on alleged child sex&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[326,171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-114538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-martin","9":"tag-port-st-lucie","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}