{"id":146932,"date":"2026-02-02T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146932\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T00:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T00:01:43","slug":"masked-suspect-in-houston-county-rape-arrested-investigators-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/146932\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked suspect in Houston County rape arrested, investigators say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DOTHAN, Ala (WDHN) \u2013 A man accused of breaking into a home and assaulting a woman earlier this month has been arrested, a release from the Houston County Sheriff\u2019s Office revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Joshua Patrick Yance, 28, was arrested on January 30 and charged with one count of rape in the first degree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators claim that Yance broke into a home near Wicksburg on West Hughway 85 on January 12 and sexually assaulted a woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the HCSO, Yance was wearing a mask during the assault and investigators worked for two weeks to identify the suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Multiple interviews were conducted during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Joshua Patrick Yance (Courtesy of the Houston County Sheriff\u2019s Office)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"615\" height=\"719\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ad454002172d086350cd19c33082e422.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Joshua Patrick Yance (Courtesy of the Houston County Sheriff\u2019s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Yance is being held in the Houston County Jail with no bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdhn.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WDHN - wdhn.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WDHN &#8211; wdhn.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOTHAN, Ala (WDHN) \u2013 A man accused of breaking into a home and assaulting a woman earlier this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,61354,28327,58,57,61274],"class_list":["post-146932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-county-jail","tag-houston-county-sheriffs-office","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-joshua-patrick-yance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146932","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=146932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}