{"id":397624,"date":"2026-08-04T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397624\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:40:13","slug":"dallas-man-accused-of-drugging-assaulting-runaway-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/397624\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas man accused of drugging, assaulting runaway teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/david-klepak-mug.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">David Klepak, 62 (Source: Dallas County Jail) <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; A 62-year-old man was arrested Sunday and charged with sexual assault of a child after authorities said he picked up a 14-year-old runaway girl, gave her drugs, and assaulted her over three days at his Dallas home.<\/p>\n<p>   Dallas man arrested for child sexual assault <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">David Michael Klepak was taken into custody on Sunday evening following a traffic stop and is being held without bond.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to an arrest warrant affidavit from the Dallas Police Department, the 14-year-old victim ran away from home on July 29. Police said Klepak approached her in a luxury vehicle and offered her a ride. After she got into the vehicle, Klepak offered her methamphetamine, which she smoked from a glass pipe, before taking her to his home on Winton Street, where the assault happened between July 29 and July 31.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">She told police she was &#8220;homeless&#8221; for a day before she was recovered by an acquaintance on Aug. 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The girl told the acquaintance she had been sexually assaulted. During a forensic interview at the Dallas Children&#8217;s Advocacy Center, she provided details that allowed police to identify Klepak and his home, including descriptions of four luxury vehicles parked at his residence. The victim said he had a Bentley, Lexus and two BMWs. She said he lived in a duplex that was &#8220;extremely messy, with items everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers with the department&#8217;s Child Exploitation Unit found Klepak driving a 2015 white luxury vehicle near his home on Sunday night. After seeing him commit a traffic violation, officers initiated a traffic stop at 4200 Camden Ave. and placed him under arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">An inventory search of the Bentley yielded approximately 17 glass pipes containing residue.<\/p>\n<p> Suspect confessed to crime <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">During an interview at Dallas Police Headquarters, Klepak was read his Miranda rights and confessed to sexually assaulting the teenager. He was then charged with second-degree felony sexual assault of a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from an arrest affidavit from Dallas Police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article David Klepak, 62 (Source: Dallas County Jail) DALLAS &#8211; A 62-year-old man was arrested Sunday and charged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,581,104,103,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-397624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397624","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=397624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}