{"id":310916,"date":"2026-06-17T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310916\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:00:09","slug":"hillsborough-jail-deputy-arrested-by-hialeah-police-accused-of-child-molestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310916\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough jail deputy arrested by Hialeah police, accused of child molestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0June 17, 2026 at 4:56 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GD6YIPW4LJDU5EB7NM2RVD6NTQ.jpg\"  width=\"720\" height=\"405\"\/>Manuel De Jesus Chaveco Delgado (MDCR) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 A 42-year-old corrections deputy with the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office became an inmate in a South Florida jail early Wednesday morning, facing multiple felony charges after authorities accused him molesting a girl in Hialeah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/17\/arrestan-a-agente-carcelario-de-hillsborough-acusado-de-abuso-sexual-infantil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/17\/arrestan-a-agente-carcelario-de-hillsborough-acusado-de-abuso-sexual-infantil\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Manuel De Jesus Chaveco Delgado knew the victim, who was between 13 and 15 years old at the time, according to an arrest warrant from the Hialeah Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An HPD news release states that the agency\u2019s detectives, along with investigators from the Hialeah Gardens Police Department and the Miami-Dade State Attorney\u2019s Office, began looking into the case earlier in the month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the warrant, the girl told investigators of multiple instances where Chaveco Delgado touched her inappropriately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Additionally, the warrant states that he showed the girl \u201ca photo of a penis\u201d on his phone at one point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chaveco Delgado faces three counts of lewd and lascivious molestation and one count of showing obscene material to a minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News has contacted HCSO seeking comment. It\u2019s not clear when he began working for the agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The agency put out a <a href=\"https:\/\/teamhcso.com\/News\/PressRelease\/2b3e82d2-ce51-4a7f-81b8-d963ef760588\/en-US\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/teamhcso.com\/News\/PressRelease\/2b3e82d2-ce51-4a7f-81b8-d963ef760588\/en-US\">brief news release<\/a> on Wednesday acknowledging Chaveco Delgado\u2019s employment, arrest and charges but providing no additional details about his employment or status with HCSO.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM Updated:\u00a0June 17, 2026 at 4:56 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandManuel De Jesus Chaveco Delgado (MDCR)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-310916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310916","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=310916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}