{"id":153068,"date":"2026-02-06T02:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/153068\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T02:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:09:11","slug":"nueces-county-sheriffs-corporal-arrested-on-felony-child-injury-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/153068\/","title":{"rendered":"Nueces County sheriff&#8217;s corporal arrested on felony child injury charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NUECES COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A Nueces County Sheriff&#8217;s Office corporal was arrested Tuesday on a felony charge of injury to a child following an investigation by Corpus Christi police.<\/p>\n<p>Corporal Joel Villase\u00f1or was taken into custody and booked into the Nueces County Jail at 3:03 p.m. on February 4, 2026. He was released after posting a $25,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>The incident that led to the third-degree felony charge occurred at Villase\u00f1or&#8217;s residence while he was off duty, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Villasenor is currently on paid administrative leave from the sheriff&#8217;s office pending completion of an internal affairs investigation.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NUECES COUNTY, Texas \u2014 A Nueces County Sheriff&#8217;s Office corporal was arrested Tuesday on a felony charge of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,5790],"class_list":{"0":"post-153068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news","11":"tag-nueces-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153068","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=153068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}