{"id":81065,"date":"2025-12-12T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/81065\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:21:08","slug":"cape-coral-man-arrested-after-being-accused-of-sexual-activity-with-a-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/81065\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral man arrested after being accused of sexual activity with a minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Coral man arrested after being accused of sexual activity with a minor<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765556468_317_gcnn.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"Gulf Coast News logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 10:41 AM EST Dec 12, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc-7.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Cape Coral Police Department has arrested a man accused of engaging in sexual activity with a minor.On Dec. 10, CCPD responded to a local hospital regarding an allegation of a sex offense involving a minor and an adult male.The case was turned over to CCPD&#8217;s Special Victims Unit. They say that the suspect, 26-year-old Erik Davante-Marcus Hudgens, knowingly had sex with a 16-year-old. Officers add that Hudgens hosted gatherings in his home where alcohol and marijuana were provided.On Dec. 11, a search warrant was executed at Hudgens&#8217; home, where officers found probable cause for his arrest.Hudgens is being charged with unlawful sexual activity with certain minors, a second-degree felony.DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tCAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Cape Coral Police Department has arrested a man accused of engaging in sexual activity with a minor.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 10, CCPD responded to a local hospital regarding an allegation of a sex offense involving a minor and an adult male.<\/p>\n<p>The case was turned over to CCPD&#8217;s Special Victims Unit. They say that the suspect, 26-year-old Erik Davante-Marcus Hudgens, knowingly had sex with a 16-year-old. Officers add that Hudgens hosted gatherings in his home where alcohol and marijuana were provided.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 11, a search warrant was executed at Hudgens&#8217; home, where officers found probable cause for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Hudgens is being charged with unlawful sexual activity with certain minors, a second-degree felony.<\/p>\n<p>DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Coral man arrested after being accused of sexual activity with a minor Updated: 10:41 AM EST Dec&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1955,209,211,210,214,19189,104,45160,1179,320,45159,213,7659,1224,30960,4862,197,221],"class_list":["post-81065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-alcohol","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-ccpd","tag-dec","tag-entertainment","tag-gathering","tag-gulf-coast-news-app","tag-home","tag-hudgens","tag-late-news","tag-marijuana","tag-officer","tag-sex-offense","tag-sexual-activity","tag-sport","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81065","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=81065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}