{"id":283378,"date":"2026-05-07T21:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283378\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:05:08","slug":"corpus-christi-officers-plea-deadline-extended-to-may-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283378\/","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi officer&#8217;s plea deadline extended to May 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Corpus Christi police officer accused of theft had his plea deadline extended in court.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Officer Travis Haecker&#8217;s plea deadline has been pushed to a docket call on May 21.<\/p>\n<p>Haecker faces charges of theft and credit card abuse. Investigators say he stole money from a police nonprofit group \u2014 specifically, funds meant for a scholarship honoring fallen officer Vicente Ortiz Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Haecker is back on active duty with the department while he awaits trial.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Corpus Christi police officer accused of theft had his plea deadline extended in court. Senior Officer Travis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,7863,7188,42233,42231,104292],"class_list":["post-283378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-corpus-christi-police","tag-credit-card-abuse","tag-officer-theft","tag-travis-haecker","tag-vicente-ortiz-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283378","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=283378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}