{"id":3309,"date":"2025-10-14T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3309\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:04:06","slug":"4k-reward-to-be-paid-out-after-tip-leads-to-arrest-of-texas-most-wanted-sex-offender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3309\/","title":{"rendered":"$4K reward to be paid out after tip leads to arrest of Texas most wanted sex offender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN \u2014 A fugitive featured on the Texas Department of Public Safety\u2019s most wanted sex offender list was captured in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Dante DeWayne Odom, 52, was arrested on Oct. 9 at his workplace after law enforcement received a tip. Odom had been wanted out of Harris County since June 2025 for failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements.<\/p>\n<p>In 1992, Odom was convicted of burglary of a habitation with the intent to violate\/abuse the victim sexually following an incident with a 30-year-old female. He was subsequently sentenced to 12 years of confinement. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Odom has also been convicted multiple times in the past for failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements and assault causing bodily injury to a family member. Odom was last discharged from a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) prison in March 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The reward for Odom&#8217;s capture had since been raised to $4,000, which DPS said will be paid out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN \u2014 A fugitive featured on the Texas Department of Public Safety\u2019s most wanted sex offender list was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1680,3735,3734,56,3736,3733,1923,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-3309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-compliance","10":"tag-fugitive","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-odom","13":"tag-reward","14":"tag-sex-offender","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-texas-headlines","17":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","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=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}