{"id":80950,"date":"2025-12-12T14:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/80950\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:44:08","slug":"cape-coral-man-arrested-for-unlawful-sexual-activity-with-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/80950\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral Man Arrested for Unlawful Sexual Activity with Minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764950231_728_News-Release-Header-NEW-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" role=\"img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>December 12, 2025, Cape Coral, FL \u2014 A 26-year-old Cape Coral man, Erik Davante-Marcus Hudgens (DOB 12\/18\/1998) has been arrested for unlawful sexual activity with a minor following an investigation by the Cape Coral Police Department\u2019s Special Victims Unit.<\/p>\n<p>On December 10, 2025, an officer responded to a local hospital regarding an allegation of a sex offense involving a minor and an adult male. After the initial response, the case was turned over to the Cape Coral Police Department Special Victims Unit for further investigation.<a href=\"https:\/\/capecops.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u200b Detectives obtained additional statements and coordinated the collection of evidence.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>The investigation revealed that the suspect hosted gatherings at his residence where alcohol and marijuana were provided, and that he knowingly engaged in unlawful sexual activity with the 16-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>On December 11, 2025, members of the Special Victims Unit, with the assistance of SWAT, served a search warrant at the suspect\u2019s residence in Cape Coral located at 102 Northwest 24th Terrace. \u200b<\/p>\n<p>Following the investigation, detectives developed probable cause to arrest 26-year-old Erik Hudgens for the following charge:<\/p>\n<p>\u20131 count in violation of Florida State Statute 794.05(1), Unlawful Sexual Activity with Certain Minors, a second-degree felony<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NR-Mugshot-Template-38.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"450\" title=\"\" role=\"img\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 12, 2025, Cape Coral, FL \u2014 A 26-year-old Cape Coral man, Erik Davante-Marcus Hudgens (DOB 12\/18\/1998) has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-80950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80950","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=80950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}