{"id":372622,"date":"2026-08-15T23:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372622\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T23:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:34:07","slug":"man-faces-additional-charges-in-investigation-involving-teenage-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372622\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces additional charges in investigation involving teenage victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A man already being held in the Hillsborough County Jail is facing additional charges following an investigation involving a teenage victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office says Sergio Hollis is accused of meeting the victim on social media, sending inappropriate images and engaging in inappropriate physical contact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hollis now faces additional charges, including three counts of lewd and lascivious battery and five counts of possession of child sexual abuse material with intent to promote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the sheriff\u2019s office, Hollis also faces charges including promotion of a sexual performance by a child, in-state transmission of child sexual abuse material by electronic device, unlawful use of a two-way communications device and traveling to meet a minor after using computer services or devices to solicit certain illegal acts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Detectives began investigating Hollis in November 2025. This week, investigators learned he was already being held in the Hillsborough County Jail after being booked Aug. 7 on unrelated charges.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A man already being held in the Hillsborough County Jail is facing additional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-372622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372622","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=372622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}