{"id":173419,"date":"2026-02-20T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173419\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:33:10","slug":"man-accused-of-owing-20k-plus-in-child-support-arrested-in-central-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173419\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of owing $20K plus in child support arrested in Central El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 39-year-old man was arrested Thursday in Central El Paso after authorities said he owes over $20,000 in child support. <\/p>\n<p>According to the El Paso County Constable Office Precinct Three, Aurelio Castro Jr. was arrested after he reportedly didn&#8217;t go to a court hearing, ignoring the court&#8217;s child support orders and owing $22,977.42 in child support.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies from the El Paso County Constable&#8217;s Office from Precinct Three received a warrant and found Castro on the 2700 block of N. Piedras St., near Kiki&#8217;s Mexican Restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/crime-news\/horizon-police-arrest-28-year-old-accused-of-breaking-windows-at-clint-isd-hq?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Horizon police arrest 28-year-old accused of breaking windows at Clint ISD HQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jail records show that as of Friday morning, Castro remains in jail under a $2,000 bond. <\/p>\n<p>After Castro&#8217;s arrest, Constable Hector Bernal stressed that these warrants involving child support are often overlooked by law enforcement agencies and promised that his deputies would be on the lookout for them. <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Bernal also urged people to submit tips regarding unpaid child support to the Constable Office of Precinct three at 915-273-3590 or to Crime Stoppers of El Paso at 915-566-8477.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/crime-news\/bodycam-couple-arrested-after-off-road-chase-ends-in-far-east-el-paso-desert-county-texas-tx-krag-street-montana-avenue-sheriff-oscar-ugarte-honda-civic-dashcam-epcso?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BODYCAM: Couple arrested after off-road chase ends in Far East El Paso desert<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 39-year-old man was arrested Thursday in Central El Paso after authorities said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-173419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173419","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=173419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}