{"id":273337,"date":"2026-04-30T19:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/273337\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:09:23","slug":"lincoln-county-deputy-sheriff-arrested-in-el-paso-prostitution-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/273337\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln County deputy sheriff arrested in El Paso prostitution sting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARRIZOZO, N.M. \u2013 A Lincoln County deputy sheriff is out of a job after he was arrested in a prostitution sting in El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday he went to El Paso Texas on his day off, and got caught up in a prostitution sting, he got arrested,\u201d Lincoln County Sheriff Michael Wood said.<\/p>\n<p>Wood posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/964574789499708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Facebook video<\/a> announcing the arrest of Michael Gallardo.<\/p>\n<p>Wood said his office will send Gallardo\u2019s information to the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy Board to review his peace officer certification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn New Mexico, deputy sheriffs are employed by the county, but they work for the sheriff. Michael doesn\u2019t work for me anymore,\u201d Wood said in the video.<\/p>\n<p>Wood said Gallardo came to his office after working at another agency for 18 years, and had been hired by the Lincoln County a couple of months ago.<\/p>\n<p>KOB 4 reached out to El Paso police for more information about Gallardo\u2019s arrest, but have not heard back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARRIZOZO, N.M. \u2013 A Lincoln County deputy sheriff is out of a job after he was arrested in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-273337","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\/273337","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=273337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}