EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — An El Paso dentist was arrested on Monday for allegedly sexually assaulting a high school student repeatedly in 2025.
Dentist Oscar Vargas is being accused of feeding drugs, alcohol and sex enhancing drinks to an underage girl and sexually assaulting her in his home multiple times from July to November of 2025.
According to the complaint affidavit, on Jan. 28, the victim’s mother called the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office after she found lewd text messages and photographs on her daughter’s cellphone, reportedly sent from Vargas.
The mother told investigators that her daughter had gotten in trouble in school, and as a result, she took her daughter’s phone and found the inappropriate messages.
On Feb. 6, investigators interviewed the victim, who described how Vargas would allegedly cancel his patient appointments to pick her up from school after she would walk out.
The victim then said that Vargas would take her to his home, feed her marijuana edibles and make her take tequila shots and a sex enhancing drink identified as “pink pussycat” before sexually assaulting her.
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Afterwards, the victim said Vargas would send her money through CashApp and recalled one time, he drove her to a Walgreens so the victim could take the “morning after pill” before dropping her back at the school.
The victim also alleged that Vargas would send her photos of his genitals and videos of him masturbating and that he recorded parts of the assaults with his cellphone.
Investigators listened to voicemails where Vargas would identify himself as “Oscar” and tell the victim that they had agreed that she was going to be “all his” after she turned 18.
Jail records show Vargas was booked into the El Paso County Downtown jail on Monday, where he was charged with sexual assault of a child, with a bond set at $150,000.
According to jail records, Vargas was released from jail on Tuesday after posting a surety bond.
The mugshot in this story was shared by the popular social media account therealfitfamelpaso, and is from a previous unrelated arrest.
KFOX14/CBS4 has repeatedly reached out to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office for the mugshot for this arrest, but has not heard back.
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