JACKSONVILLE, N.C. \u2014 A Jacksonville man is facing multiple felony charges after investigators say he sexually assaulted a child in 2021.<\/p>\n
According to online arrest records, Paul Darrel Sheppard, 74, of Jacksonville, was arrested by the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office on July 20, 2026.<\/p>\n
Sheppard is charged with:<\/p>\n
Felony statutory rape of a child by an adultFelony statutory sex offense with a child by an adultSecret peeping<\/p>\n
According to arrest warrants, the alleged offenses occurred on Jan. 1, 2021, and involved a child who was under the age of 13. Charging documents also allege Shappard secretly looked into a bathroom occupied by the child at a home on Thyme Court in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
Sheppard is being held in the Onslow County Detention Center without bond. He is scheduled to appear in court on July 21, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. \u2014 A Jacksonville man is facing multiple felony charges after investigators say he sexually assaulted a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-348149","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\/348149","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=348149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}