{"id":155480,"date":"2026-02-07T23:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155480\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T23:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T23:31:10","slug":"citizen-group-leads-livingston-police-to-child-pornography-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155480\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen group leads Livingston police to child pornography suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">LIVINGSTON, Texas &#8211; Livingston PD is crediting a Houston-based citizen group for leading to the arrest of a suspected child predator.<\/p>\n<p>   Group leads to Livingston arrest <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/livingstontxpd\/posts\/pfbid02jipHVZQP9BVXedMjpztcQUyYZ6sCQRgMmMPbkzvXqWK3DEsCcXnnAdTCFKGaDUsbl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Livingston Police Department says<\/a> 59-year-old resident David Burks has been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">According to the department, a private citizen group called &#8220;PredatorPoachers&#8221; contacted police about Burke. The group was allegedly communicating with the suspect online as he was planning to meet with a minor.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Police gathered evidence from the group, then learned through their investigation that Burke allegedly had &#8220;multiple digital files depicting child sexual abuse material.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">No other details are available at this time.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Anyone with information about crimes related to child exploitation is encouraged to contact police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Livingston Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/polk-county\/livingston\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Livingston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/polk-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Polk County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIVINGSTON, Texas &#8211; Livingston PD is crediting a Houston-based citizen group for leading to the arrest of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,64130,223,6215,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-155480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-livingston","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-polk-county","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155480","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=155480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}