{"id":112844,"date":"2026-01-06T15:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/112844\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:49:13","slug":"lpd-arrest-man-on-kidnapping-charges-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/112844\/","title":{"rendered":"LPD arrest man on kidnapping charges overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock police have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with the kidnapping of a one-year-old child following a break-in at an apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to LPD, officers were called to an apartment in the 5500 block of 58th Street around 11:20 p.m. Monday for reports of someone breaking into an apartment, shooting a gun and taking a one-year-old child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police immediately began searching the area and investigating the circumstances of the kidnapping, which they said was not random.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">About an hour and a half later, officers located 20-year-old Patrick Contreras. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LPD says the child was found unharmed and returned to its mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Contreras was arrested on multiple charges and taken to the Lubbock County Detention Center without incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He remains in custody as of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock police have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with the kidnapping of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[12871,2814,49964,49963,7878,1739,168,170,169,45221,101],"class_list":["post-112844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-apartment","tag-charges","tag-complex","tag-conteras","tag-kidnapping","tag-lpd","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-patrick","tag-suspect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112844","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=112844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}