{"id":302355,"date":"2026-05-21T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/302355\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:45:07","slug":"north-texas-man-arrested-after-trying-to-sell-a-teen-a-vape-in-exchange-for-sex-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/302355\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas man arrested after trying to sell a teen a vape in exchange for sex, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheman Police say the incident happened on Thursday, May 14, in the 400 block of East Orange Street.<\/p>\n<p>SHERMAN, Texas \u2014 A man is in custody after trying to buy a vape for a teen in return for sex, according to Sherman Police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say on Thursday, May 14, officers were called to the 400 block of East Orange Street after getting reports of a suspicious person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the caller, a teenager, told police a man drove up beside her and offered to buy her a vape in exchange for sex. Police say the teen gave officers a description of the suspect and his car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say officers were able to locate and arrest 65-year-old Stephen Lyons. Officials say Lyons admitted to the allegations and found a vape still sealed in its packaging inside Lyons&#8217; car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lyons was booked in the Grayson County jail on a Solicitation of Prostitution of a Person Under 18 Years of Age charge and a bond of $30,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheman Police say the incident happened on Thursday, May 14, in the 400 block of East Orange Street.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-302355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302355","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=302355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}