{"id":286978,"date":"2026-07-05T00:10:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/286978\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T00:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T00:10:36","slug":"cayuga-county-sheriffs-deputy-arrested-on-rape-charges-involving-a-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/286978\/","title":{"rendered":"Cayuga County Sheriff&#8217;s deputy arrested on rape charges involving a minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AUBURN, N.Y. \u2014 On Friday, New York State Police said they\u2019re investigating a Cayuga County Sheriff\u2019s deputy who\u2019s accused of having a sexual relationship with a minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police say Hunter R. Lawrence of the Town of Auburn, 25, was arrested and charged. He has since been placed on administrative leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators reported that Lawrence had multiple sexual encounters with someone under the age of 17. The victim was at different ages across their meetings, leading to multiple charges, police added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are no allegations that Lawrence met with the victim while on duty, police also mentioned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was charged with two counts of rape in the second degree, two counts of rape in the third degree, and endangering the welfare of a child. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was taken to Cortland County Jail for arraignment, and police say the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/rape-charges\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rape charges<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUBURN, N.Y. \u2014 On Friday, New York State Police said they\u2019re investigating a Cayuga County Sheriff\u2019s deputy who\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,109829],"class_list":["post-286978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-rape-charges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}