{"id":135548,"date":"2026-01-28T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135548\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:28:08","slug":"lala-owner-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-st-pete-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135548\/","title":{"rendered":"Lala Owner Arrested On Child Porn Charges: St. Pete Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 The owner of restaurant and karaoke lounge Lala was arrested Tuesday morning on 18 counts of possession of child pornography, St. Petersburg police said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>Lucas Herraiz, 42, was arrested just before 8 a.m. after a search warrant on his home and business, police said. Two electronic devices were seized from his home.<\/p>\n<p>Herraiz is founder and managing partner of Lala St. Pete, co-founder of Lala Tampa, and owner and CEO of the Lala karaoke franchise, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lucas-herraiz-abbb64b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his LinkedIn profile<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>A staff member who answered the phone at the St. Pete location told Patch on that the company doesn&#8217;t have a comment about his arrest. There was no answer at the Tampa restaurant on Tuesday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>Detectives began investigating Herraiz after receiving a tip from the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-image=\"24559556-1769631481\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Herraiz, Lucas Jose.jpg\" data- \/>Lucas Herraiz (St. Petersburg Police Department) <\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined that he downloaded multiple videos of child sexual abuse material, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The state attorney\u2019s office is requesting a high bond because of the number of charges and Herraiz\u2019s \u201cability to flee,\u201d according to his arrest affidavit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 The owner of restaurant and karaoke lounge Lala was arrested Tuesday morning on 18&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-135548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135548","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=135548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}