{"id":307405,"date":"2026-05-24T23:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/307405\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T23:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T23:36:29","slug":"man-faces-charges-for-online-solicitation-of-minor-bcso-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/307405\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces charges for online solicitation of minor, BCSO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A 32-year-old man is accused of trying to have sex with what he believed were three underage girls \u2014 the Bexar County Sheriff said they were all undercover deputies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Brandon Felan was arrested and charged with online solicitation of a minor, a second-degree felony. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">He is currently booked into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A BCSO deputy, posing as a 16-year-old girl, was in communication with Felan through a anonymous online texting app, Sheriff Javier Salazar said in a press conference on Friday. He allegedly made inappropriate requests and acts through messages. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Secret Service worked alongside BCSO in this operation and Salazar said federal authorities were already familiar with Felan from a prior sting operation attempt in April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">That operation fell flat because he stopped talking to the undercover detective and didn\u2019t meet up with the underage child, according to Salazar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">This time Felan planned to meet up with the 16-year-old girl at a restaurant in the 10700 block of Potranco Road, Salazar said, and was arrested by a SWAT team at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cThree different instances where he thinks he\u2019s talking to three different underage girls, when in reality he\u2019s talking to three undercover operatives,\u201d Salazar said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Felan had a connection to the military, according to Salazar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cHe\u2019s some kind of contractor that had been doing some work at Lackland (Air Force Base),\u201d Salazar said. He doesn\u2019t believe any actions related to the crime were committed on base.<\/p>\n<p>Read also:<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A 32-year-old man is accused of trying to have sex with what he believed were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4755,698,294,23655,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-307405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-bcso","tag-bexar-county","tag-crime","tag-javier-salazar","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307405","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=307405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}