{"id":283133,"date":"2026-05-07T17:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283133\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:58:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:58:49","slug":"father-charged-after-custody-dispute-led-to-reported-kidnapping-in-central-lubbock-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283133\/","title":{"rendered":"Father charged after custody dispute led to reported kidnapping in central Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A six-year-old girl is safe after police say she was taken from a home in central Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Just after 11 p.m., Lubbock police responded to a home near 24th Street and Boston for reports of a kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say the caller stated an unknown male had entered the home and taken her granddaughter. Shortly after officers arrived, the child\u2019s father, 27-year-old Anthony Garcia, was identified as the suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Responding officers received a vehicle description and later located Garcia in the 2600 block of North MLK, Jr. Blvd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Garcia was taken into custody and the six-year-old girl was found safe inside a nearby home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Garcia was booked into the Lubbock County Detention Center charged with burglary of a habitation and unlawful restraint. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While the call was initially dispatched as a kidnapping, investigators determined the incident stemmed from a custodial dispute involving the child\u2019s biological parents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say at the time of the incident, there were no court-ordered custody documents in place. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A six-year-old girl is safe after police say she was taken from a home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[294,319,7878,251,168,170,169,3605,97772],"class_list":["post-283133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-crime","tag-kcbd","tag-kidnapping","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-police-department","tag-martin-luther-king-jr-boulevard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283133","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=283133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}