{"id":363600,"date":"2026-07-07T04:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363600\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T04:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T04:45:17","slug":"man-arrested-on-child-grooming-assault-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363600\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested on child grooming, assault charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man arrested on child grooming, assault charges<\/p>\n

Published 7:30 am Friday, July 3, 2026<\/p>\n

CORPUS CHRISTI \u2014A Corpus Christi man is facing multiple felony charges after being arrested by the Nueces County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Richard Salazar, 30, was booked into the Nueces County Jail on Thursday, according to jail records.<\/p>\n

Salazar is charged with two counts of child grooming and two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child.<\/p>\n

Jail records show bond was set at $50,000 for each child grooming charge and $150,000 for each aggravated sexual assault of a child charge, bringing his total bond to $400,000.<\/p>\n

Under Texas law, aggravated sexual assault of a child is a first-degree felony punishable by five to 99 years or life in prison upon conviction. Child grooming is a second-degree felony punishable by two to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Additional details about the allegations were not immediately available.<\/p>\n


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Jakob Gurley\u00a0is a multimedia journalist with the Victoria Advocate. He can be reached at jakob.gurley@vicad.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man arrested on child grooming, assault charges Published 7:30 am Friday, July 3, 2026 CORPUS CHRISTI \u2014A Corpus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,294,103894,114645,803,5790,114646],"class_list":["post-363600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-crime","tag-crime-court","tag-crime-and-court","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-nueces-county","tag-nueces-county-sheriff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363600","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=363600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}