{"id":190677,"date":"2026-03-13T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190677\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:49:08","slug":"jacksonville-man-accused-of-sexually-coercing-multiple-people-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190677\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man accused of sexually coercing multiple people online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Texas (KTRE) &#8211; A Jacksonville man is behind bars after police say he engaged in a lengthy campaign of sexual coercion, stalking and harassment directed at multiple people online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dewayne Scott Chapline, 58, of Jacksonville, was held Friday at the Cherokee County Jail on bonds totaling $510,000 for warrants that charged him with sexual coercion, stalking and online impersonation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Over the course of a lengthy investigation, detectives determined Chapline threatened and intimidated a person into sending sexually explicit photos, according to Jacksonville police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He then used the images to threaten the person and demand additional content, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jacksonville police arrested Chapline during a traffic stop Friday in the 300 block of Neches Street in Jacksonville and transported him to the Cherokee County Jail, Police Chief Steven Markasky said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KTRE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Texas (KTRE) &#8211; A Jacksonville man is behind bars after police say he engaged in a lengthy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[692,89033,5678,89032,265,116,118,117,7551,11108],"class_list":["post-190677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-arrest","tag-catfishing","tag-cherokee-county","tag-coercion","tag-crime","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sexual","tag-stalking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190677","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=190677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}