{"id":108514,"date":"2026-01-02T16:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/108514\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T16:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:01:23","slug":"san-antonio-dentist-arrested-accused-of-assaulting-woman-at-home-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/108514\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio dentist arrested, accused of assaulting woman at home, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A San Antonio dentist was arrested after being accused of assaulting a woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eric Justin Tong, 34, was arrested on\u00a0Dec. 29 at a home in the 100 block of Pinecrest in Terrell Heights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated sexual assault, assault causing bodily injury to a family member, unlawful restraint and assault on a family member by impeding breath or circulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A LinkedIn profile for Tong states he is a dentist in the U.S. Army based in San Antonio. His license with the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners remains active.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/news\/article\/body-found-identification-camila-mendoza-olmos-21269601.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Human remains positively identified as missing Camila Mendoza Olmos, source says;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Human remains positively identified as missing Camila Mendoza Olmos, source says<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A preliminary police report from the San Antonio Police Department states that when officers arrived at the residence, they were met by a 21-year-old woman at the door, who stated she needed help. Officers observed that the woman had several markings on her body, the report states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The woman then told police that she had been assaulted several times and had attempted to flee, but was unable due to Tong restraining her, the report states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police found Tong at the residence and placed him under arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressnews.com\/news\/article\/san-antonio-dentist-arrested-21269919.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Antonio dentist arrested, accused of assaulting woman at home, police say;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">San Antonio dentist arrested, accused of assaulting woman at home, police say<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Antonio dentist was arrested after being accused of assaulting a woman. Eric Justin Tong, 34, was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[48788,45303,48787,82,84,83,5264],"class_list":["post-108514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-assaulting","tag-bexar-county-sheriff39s-office","tag-eric-justin-tong","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-san-antonio-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}