{"id":17661,"date":"2025-10-23T15:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/17661\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:49:07","slug":"man-sentenced-to-15-years-as-part-of-plea-deal-in-connection-with-kidnapping-of-lubbock-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/17661\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 15 years as part of plea deal in connection with kidnapping of Lubbock woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A man charged in connection with the kidnapping of a Lubbock woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison as part of a plea deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">32-year-old Joe Lopez pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon in the 140th District Court. Lopez faced nine additional charges, including one count of kidnapping. All other charges were dismissed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On November 10, 2023, 29-year-old Vivian Moreno was reported missing. Investigators accused Lopez of taking Moreno from a motel on the East Slaton Highway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Surveillance video reportedly showed Lopez throwing Moreno to the ground, then dragging her into a vehicle and speeding away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Moreno was found safe the following day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2023\/11\/28\/man-accused-kidnapping-lubbock-woman-custody\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2023\/11\/28\/man-accused-kidnapping-lubbock-woman-custody\/\">Man accused of kidnapping Lubbock woman in custody, indicted<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Judge Douglas Freitag was not pleased with the agreement, but followed the recommendations of the plea offered by the District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A man charged in connection with the kidnapping of a Lubbock woman was sentenced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13710,13711,319,251,168,1742,170,169,7456,13712],"class_list":["post-17661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-guilty-plea","tag-joe-lopez","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-crime","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-sentencing","tag-vivian-moreno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17661","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=17661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}