{"id":164311,"date":"2026-02-14T06:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164311\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T06:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:02:17","slug":"fort-worth-firefighter-faces-sexual-assault-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164311\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Firefighter Faces Sexual Assault Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Fort Worth paramedic faces aggravated sexual assault charges after allegedly attacking a patient during a December home healthcare visit.<\/p>\n

Luke Dickens, 35, turned himself in on February 6 following accusations that he sexually assaulted a victim during a scheduled medical visit in Saginaw.<\/p>\n

The Fort Worth Fire Department has placed Dickens on administrative leave pending investigation.<\/p>\n

Saginaw police received<\/a> the sexual assault report on January 13. The alleged attack occurred on December 30, 2025, at a residence on Ridgecrest Drive.<\/p>\n

Dickens had been employed with the Fort Worth Fire Department since July 2025. He surrendered at the Tarrant County Sheriff\u2019s Office after authorities issued an arrest warrant.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d Fort Worth FD said in a statement, Fox 4 KDFW reported.<\/p>\n

Police have not identified the victim. Saginaw authorities confirmed their investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth paramedic faces aggravated sexual assault charges after allegedly attacking a patient during a December home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[67060,67068,67065,116,124,118,117,67069,67071,67062,67070,67063,67064,63790,67066,67061,4031,67067],"class_list":["post-164311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-aggravated-sexual-assault-patient","tag-december-2025-assault","tag-firefighter-administrative-leave","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-fire-department","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-paramedic","tag-fort-worth-paramedic-charged","tag-home-healthcare-assault","tag-luke-dickens-arrest","tag-paramedic-sexual-assault","tag-ridgecrest-drive-incident","tag-saginaw","tag-saginaw-police-investigation","tag-saginaw-sexual-assault","tag-sexual-assault","tag-tarrant-county-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164311","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=164311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}