{"id":263836,"date":"2026-05-08T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263836\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:30:07","slug":"jacksonville-corrections-officer-arrested-for-alleged-attempted-sexual-battery-agency-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/263836\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville corrections officer arrested for alleged attempted sexual battery, agency announces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erik L. Zapata, 21, faces one count of attempted sexual battery. He had been working for the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office for over two years when he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A now-former corrections officer for the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office is in custody after being arrested on a warrant out of Manatee County, the agency announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Erik L. Zapata, 21, faces one count of attempted sexual battery. He had been working for JSO for just over two years when he was arrested Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>JSO said the Manatee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office conducted the investigation and found probable cause for the arrest warrant. They added that their special assault and integrity units are assisting in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Zapata&#8217;s arrest marks the 10th of a JSO employee in 2026. He has since resigned from the agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erik L. Zapata, 21, faces one count of attempted sexual battery. He had been working for the Jacksonville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-263836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263836","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=263836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}