{"id":337473,"date":"2026-06-15T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337473\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:11:08","slug":"man-arrested-in-lamb-county-charged-with-3-counts-of-indecency-with-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337473\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in Lamb County charged with 3 counts of indecency with a child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested a man in Lamb County accused of indecency with a child younger than 14 years of age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">37-year-old Pedro Ortiz faces three counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact, a second degree felony. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On March 12, 2025, an officer with the Lubbock ISD Police Department told investigators the victim had made an outcry she was inappropriately touched. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators were advised by a witness the victim was touched inappropriately multiple times on different occasions back in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The police report indicates Ortiz threatened the victim if she told anyone about the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ortiz is being held in the Lubbock County Detention Center on a combined bond of $150,000.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested a man in Lamb County accused of indecency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[19966,52968,319,31861,251,1739,19890,168,170,169],"class_list":["post-337473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-child-sexual-abuse","tag-indecency-with-a-child","tag-kcbd","tag-lamb-county","tag-local-news","tag-lpd","tag-lso","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337473","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=337473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}