{"id":162626,"date":"2026-02-13T03:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/162626\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T03:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T03:22:22","slug":"fort-worth-ems-worker-arrested-on-sexual-assault-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/162626\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth EMS worker arrested on sexual assault charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/35yo-luke-dickens-mug.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A Fort Worth EMS worker was arrested and accused of sexual assault during a home health visit last December.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">35-year-old Luke Dickens was arrested on Feb. 6 and charged with aggravated sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">On Jan. 13, police were made aware of a sexual assault report regarding a Dec. 2025 incident in the 500 block of Ridgecrest Drive in Saginaw.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/V_WORTHY-ST-STANDOFF_SHOOTING-5P_00.00.07.00.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Investigators learned Dickens, a paramedic with the Fort Worth Fire Department, had a scheduled home visit with the victim on Dec. 30, 2025. During the visit, Dickens allegedly sexually assaulted the victim.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Dickens turned himself in at the Tarrant County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Jail once an arrest warrant was issued. The Fort Worth Fire Department has placed Dickens, who has been with Fort Worth FD since July 2025, on administrative leave.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Investigators have not released the name of the victim.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">&#8220;The Fort Worth Fire Department takes any and all accusations of this nature seriously. We are working in complete cooperation with the Saginaw Police Department. A thorough investigation to collect and review the facts and the circumstances of these allegations is being conducted,&#8221; Fort Worth FD said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Saginaw police said the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story came from the Fort Worth Fire Department and the Saginaw Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tarrant County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; A Fort Worth EMS worker was arrested and accused of sexual assault during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1046,116,118,117,223,122,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-162626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tarrant-county","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162626","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=162626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}