{"id":216092,"date":"2026-04-02T14:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216092\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:24:07","slug":"jacksonville-man-arrested-on-child-rape-sex-crime-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216092\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man arrested on child rape &#038; sex crime charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A Jacksonville man is in jail facing several charges, including statutory rape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ashton Lamb was arrested by Jacksonville police officers this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 19-year-old is charged with two counts of statutory rape of a child 15 years old or younger, two counts of indecent liberties with a child and first-degree statutory sex offense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Warrants say the crimes were committed against two victims, including one who is under 13 years old. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Warrants list that several of the offenses happened on Sunday, while one of his charges stems from a rape that happened in February. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lamb was taken to the Onslow County Jail and is being held without bond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A Jacksonville man is in jail facing several charges, including statutory rape. Ashton Lamb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98490,47563,116,118,117,15668,15671,4480],"class_list":["post-216092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-ashton-lamb","tag-child-sex-crimes","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-police-department","tag-onslow-county-jail","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216092","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=216092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}