{"id":264897,"date":"2026-05-09T16:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264897\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:02:12","slug":"port-st-lucie-man-jailed-on-child-exploitation-charges-st-lucie-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264897\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie man jailed on child exploitation charges | St. Lucie County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A 35-year-old Port St. Lucie man remains in the St. Lucie County Jail as of May 9 on child exploitation charges, according to jail records.<\/p>\n<p>On May 8, the St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office Criminal Investigations Division, along with SWAT Team and the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, executed a search warrant at a home in the 100 block of NE Jardain Rd., Port St. Lucie, according to sheriff\u2019s office reports.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives arrested Marco Antonio Fernandez on charges of lewd and lascivious molestation \u2013 offender over 18, victim between 12 and 16; transmission of harmful material to a minor by an electronic device; lewd computer solicitation of a child; and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, according to sheriff\u2019s office reports.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to the St. Lucie County Jail where he is being held on a bond of $107,500, according to jail records.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information related to this investigation is encouraged to contact Detective Corporals Diaz and Wax at 772-462-7300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A 35-year-old Port St. Lucie man remains in the St. Lucie County Jail as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-264897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264897","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=264897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}