{"id":198667,"date":"2026-03-10T19:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198667\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:08:09","slug":"houston-man-charged-with-locking-disabled-wife-inside-bedroom-for-5-years-court-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/198667\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston man charged with locking disabled wife inside bedroom for 5 years: court records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police arrested a man who is now accused of keeping his disabled wife locked in a bedroom of their home for years, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">James Earl Johnson is charged with injury to a disabled and abandoning a disabled person, his wife. His total bond was set at $100,000.<\/p>\n<p> Husband arrested for keeping wife locked inside home  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/james-earl-johnson-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">James Earl Johnson mugshot <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">According to court records, Johnson had his disabled wife confined to a bedroom for five years with no phone access.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Johnson is accused of leaving his wife with an egg and some dinner. She did not have access to proper nutrition and medical care, officials claim.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Documents say the wife was able to call 911 after Johnson left a phone on the nightstand. However, he carried her back to bed after hanging up the 911 call.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">There has been no reports on the condition of the wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information gathered from Harris County public court records.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/harris-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harris County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8211; Houston police arrested a man who is now accused of keeping his disabled wife locked in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,405,56,58,57,223,2053,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-198667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-harris-county","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198667","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=198667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}