{"id":374495,"date":"2026-07-15T20:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374495\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T20:22:09","slug":"the-world-cup-is-departing-dfw-heres-the-final-arrest-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374495\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Cup is departing DFW. Here&#8217;s the final arrest count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the first eight games, officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/crime\/article\/world-cup-arlington-eight-games-arrest-roundup-22335616.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had arrested 45 people<\/a>, with Tuesday\u2019s game bringing the total to 51 overall for the tournament\u2019s Dallas-Fort Worth\u00a0stint.<\/p>\n<p>According to Arlington police spokesman Tim Ciesco, the city hosted more than 631,000 fans at Dallas Stadium (AT&amp;T Stadium) and thousands more throughout the city\u2019s entertainment district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, the fans that came through Arlington were great, they had fun, and they were easy to work with,\u201d Ciesco said.<\/p>\n<p>Ciesco expressed gratitude toward federal, state and local agencies that played a role in the World Cup\u2019s public safety success, saying Arlington police \u201ccouldn\u2019t have done this without them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a summary of the last D-FW game\u2019s arrests and a recap of the previous ones.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, criminal trespass and trademark counterfeiting arrests trumped all others in the roundup. So, how did Arlington police approach these?<\/p>\n<p>The majority of criminal trespass arrests, according to Ciesco, were individuals caught trying to enter matches without valid tickets or credentials. He said they assigned officers to the plazas and the stadium perimeter with the specific goal of seeking anyone trying to sneak in.<\/p>\n<p>Ciesco said stadium security was also helpful in alerting police if there were any entrance issues.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, officers were assigned to patrol the entertainment district on match days to look for vendors attempting to sell unlicensed merchandise to fans, Ciesco said.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA and several brands that produce the official jerseys had representatives on site with expertise in detecting counterfeit merchandise.\u00a0Ciesco said brand representatives are able to inspect the jerseys and let police know whether they\u2019re legitimate or not.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a crime to sell counterfeit trademarked merchandise, Ciesco said, and additionally, police wanted to ensure fans didn&#8217;t get\u00a0scammed by purchasing items that turned out to be fake or of lesser quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the first eight games, officials had arrested 45 people, with Tuesday\u2019s game bringing the total to 51&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1638,88032,87907,88346,87906,3692],"class_list":["post-374495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-brief","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth","tag-tp-arlington","tag-tp-att-stadium","tag-tp-world-cup","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374495","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=374495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}