{"id":347331,"date":"2026-06-23T18:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347331\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T18:08:28","slug":"el-paso-county-deputies-locate-arrest-wanted-fugitive-in-san-elizario-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/347331\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso County deputies locate, arrest wanted fugitive in San Elizario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ELIZARIO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Deputies with the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office Special Operations Unit arrested a 48-year-old wanted fugitive on June 17 after receiving information about his whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office said that on Wednesday, deputies responded to the 12900 block of Petunia Drive in San Elizario, where Eric Rocha was located and taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p>Rocha was wanted on three counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact and one count of continuous sexual abuse of a young child, with the victim under 14 years of age, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>After his arrest, Rocha was taken to the El Paso County Downtown Detention Facility, where he was booked on all charges under a combined bond of $125,000, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/couple-arrested-in-san-elizario-after-authorities-rescue-severely-malnourished-dog?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Couple arrested in San Elizario after authorities rescue severely malnourished dog<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ELIZARIO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Deputies with the El Paso County Sheriff\u2019s Office Special Operations Unit arrested a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-347331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347331","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=347331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}