{"id":37579,"date":"2025-11-06T04:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/37579\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T04:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T04:31:07","slug":"texas-most-wanted-fugitive-arrested-in-jacksonville-officer-shooting-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/37579\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas most wanted fugitive arrested in Jacksonville officer shooting case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762403467_883_3295.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">CUNEY, Texas &#8211; A man accused of shooting a Jacksonville police officer last weekend was captured Wednesday evening after a multi-agency search, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">64-year-old Bobby Michael Dennis of Jacksonville, was arrested around 8:30 p.m. after officers executed a search warrant at a property on County Road, just west of the city limits, according to a Jacksonville Police Department news release.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/110525-bobby-dennis-caught-pic-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Dennis was found in a wooded area and surrendered without incident. Police said he was handcuffed using the injured officer\u2019s handcuffs before being booked into the Cherokee County Jail.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/110525-bobby-dennis-caught-pic-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">He faces charges of attempted capital murder of a peace officer, interference with a police service animal, and two counts of obstruction or retaliation.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Dennis had been the subject of a Blue Alert and was added to the Texas Department of Public Safety\u2019s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list after allegedly shooting a Jacksonville officer during a Sunday afternoon encounter. The officer, who was flown to a Tyler hospital, was last reported in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police thanked multiple local, state and federal agencies, including the Cherokee County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Texas Rangers, DPS, ATF, FBI, and U.S. Marshals for their assistance in the arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article was provided by the Jacksoville Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article CUNEY, Texas &#8211; A man accused of shooting a Jacksonville police officer last weekend was captured Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1046,223,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-37579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37579","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=37579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}