{"id":164019,"date":"2026-02-14T01:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164019\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:19:18","slug":"fort-worth-ems-worker-arrested-on-sexual-assault-charge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164019\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth EMS worker arrested on sexual assault charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Jan. 13, police were made aware of a sexual assault report in Saginaw on Dec. 30, 2025. The assault allegedly occurred during a home healthcare visit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect was identified as 35-year-old Luke Dickens, a Fort Worth Fire Department paramedic who turned himself in on Feb. 6 after an arrest warrant was issued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dickens has been placed on administrative leave by the Fort Worth FD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">35-year-old Luke Dickens was arrested on Feb. 6 and charged with aggravated sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8b8446028d13292406b600b4838b1bec.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators have not released the name of the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What they&#8217;re saying<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Saginaw police said the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this story came from the Fort Worth Fire Department and the Saginaw Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief On Jan. 13, police were made aware of a sexual assault report in Saginaw on Dec.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6827,116,124,118,117,66626,63790,67009,67008,4031],"class_list":["post-164019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-aggravated-sexual-assault","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-fire-department","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-luke-dickens","tag-saginaw","tag-saginaw-police","tag-saginaw-police-department","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164019","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=164019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}