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Derrick Van Flowers (Left) and Spencer Mandell Giron <\/p>\n
AUSTIN – Two men on the Texas<\/a> DPS 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders list were arrested last week in Texas and Louisiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n Both men had been on the run for months after failing to comply with their sex offender registration<\/a> requirements.\u00a0<\/p>\n Most Wanted sex offender arrests Derrick Van Flowers, 44, was arrested in Houston on Oct. 8 after a traffic stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n The stop stemmed from an investigation into Flowers’ location, a DPS release said Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n Flowers had been wanted in Harris County since April 2025. His original conviction was in 2008 for an incident with a 15-year-old girl, DPS says. He was convicted again in 2010 for failing to comply with his sex offender registration.\u00a0<\/p>\n Spencer Mandell Giron, 48, was arrested in Lake Charles, LA, on Oct. 9, also following a traffic stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n Local authorities coordinated with DPS to arrest Giron following an investigation into his location.\u00a0<\/p>\n Giron had been wanted since June 2025. His original conviction came in 1998 for an incident with a 13-year-old girl, DPS says. He was later convicted again after an 11-year sentence, when he was tried for a federal drug offense in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story came from the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n Texas<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Derrick Van Flowers (Left) and Spencer Mandell Giron AUSTIN – Two men on the Texas DPS 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4112,"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-4111","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\/4111","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=4111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/screenshot-2025-10-14-213438.png\")
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