{"id":192115,"date":"2026-03-05T19:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/192115\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:07:14","slug":"el-paso-man-arrested-accused-of-owing-over-40k-in-child-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/192115\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso man arrested, accused of owing over $40K in child support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 43-year-old man accused of failing to pay more than $40,000 in child support was arrested in El Paso after deputies learned he had an active warrant, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, deputies with the El Paso County Constable Office Precinct Three received information about an active warrant for criminal non-support for Fernando Montoya. <\/p>\n<p>The warrant carried a $20,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Montoya had failed to appear at a court hearing and disregarded the court\u2019s child support orders. <\/p>\n<p>Deputies located him in the 15000 block of Pumice and took him into custody. <\/p>\n<p>He was booked into the county jail without further incident.<\/p>\n<p>Constable Hector Bernal said these types of warrants are often overlooked by law enforcement agencies and said his deputies will be \u201cvigilantly\u201d executing criminal non-support warrants.<\/p>\n<p>Tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers of El Paso at 915-566-8477 or online. Information may also be submitted at 915-273-3590.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/socorro-man-arrested-for-allegedly-owing-over-46k-in-child-support-texas-tx-el-paso-constable-county-alameda-whataburger-avenue-crime-stoppers-ave?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Socorro man arrested for allegedly owing over $46K in child support<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.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 43-year-old man accused of failing to pay more than $40,000 in child&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-192115","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\/192115","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=192115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}