{"id":255612,"date":"2026-04-18T10:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/255612\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:44:11","slug":"texas-mayor-charged-with-assaulting-pregnant-city-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/255612\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas mayor charged with assaulting pregnant city secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MAGNOLIA, Texas (KPRC) \u2013 The mayor of Magnolia, Texas, has been charged with felony assault of a pregnant woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The charge comes as relief for the accuser, City Secretary Christian Gable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gable first reported the alleged assault by Mayor Matthew Dantzer to human resources, and then the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But Gable said the city closed the investigation without taking action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">However, an investigation at the state level led to Dantzer\u2019s arrest and indictment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A mayor in Texas is charged with felony assault of a pregnant woman following a investigation.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MV3TGPUGPNGYDCIQ5S7OQQNAUE.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>A mayor in Texas is charged with felony assault of a pregnant woman following a investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation included hotel surveillance video that Gable said shows the incident from last October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cUses his hand to grab me by the throat and pin me against this pillar,\u201d Gable said. \u201cTo watch that back it is crystal clear. There\u2019s footage of inside the hotel as well, and you can see his attempt to trip me from behind that I wasn\u2019t quite aware of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gable said that despite the charges, Dantzer still has access to City Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gable has filed a federal lawsuit against Dantzer and the city, alleging failure to investigate and retaliation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dantzer is out on bond and maintains his innocence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Meanwhile, the Magnolia City Council is holding a special closed meeting on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The mayor pro tem has called for Dantzer\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KPRC via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAGNOLIA, Texas (KPRC) \u2013 The mayor of Magnolia, Texas, has been charged with felony assault of a pregnant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2458,18037,992,96305,96306,96307,42095,662,27238,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-255612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-assault","tag-chip","tag-city","tag-dantzer","tag-gaines","tag-joanna","tag-magnolia","tag-mayor","tag-pregnant","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255612","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=255612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}