{"id":312565,"date":"2026-06-19T02:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T02:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312565\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T02:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T02:07:10","slug":"tri-state-police-chief-back-in-ohio-after-arrest-in-florida-on-child-sex-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312565\/","title":{"rendered":"Tri-State police chief back in Ohio after arrest in Florida on child sex charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLERMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WKRC) &#8211; Batavia Police Chief Chad Essert is back in Clermont County after being arrested in Florida on child sex charges.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators accuse Essert of having sex with one of his students in both Clermont and Hamilton counties. <\/p>\n<p>The allegations stem from the period between 2005 and 2010, when Essert was a teacher at Scarlet Oaks and an instructor in the Young Marines program.<\/p>\n<p>Bethel\u2019s mayor said he is in the process of removing Essert as police chief. Essert is expected to face a judge on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLERMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WKRC) &#8211; Batavia Police Chief Chad Essert is back in Clermont County after being arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-312565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312565","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=312565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}