{"id":229319,"date":"2026-03-31T23:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229319\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:21:13","slug":"texas-top-10-most-wanted-sex-offender-suspect-found-arrested-in-kyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229319\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas &#8216;Top 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender&#8217; suspect found, arrested in Kyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man who was on the Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender list was captured by state troopers in Hays County on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), investigators found 31-year-old Kenneth O&#8217;Brien Hiner at a residence in Kyle on March 27.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In 2013, he was arrested by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service for sexual assault. He was found guilty, served nine months in detention and was discharged from the military.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Since 2015, he&#8217;s been arrested three times for failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements. Hiner has been wanted since January 2026 out of Nueces County for the same failure to comply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hiner\u2019s arrest was not from tip information received through Texas Crime Stoppers, so no reward will be paid, DPS said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was on the Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender list was captured by state troopers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69749,2427,88686,88685,5790,5181,27,2193,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-229319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-10-most-wanted","9":"tag-hays-county","10":"tag-kenneth-o39brien-hiner","11":"tag-naval-criminal-investigative-service","12":"tag-nueces-county","13":"tag-state-troopers","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-texas-crime-stoppers","16":"tag-texas-headlines","17":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229319","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=229319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}