{"id":414328,"date":"2026-08-23T03:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/414328\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T03:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:20:07","slug":"houston-area-mayor-released-on-bond-after-indecent-exposure-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/414328\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston-area mayor released on bond after indecent exposure arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LA MARQUE, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; La Marque Mayor Keith Bell is out on a $75,000 bond after being arrested Friday on a charge of indecent exposure, the city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1Fd2nwfqdb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bell was arrested in Brazoria County. The city said the arrest stemmed from something unrelated to his duties as mayor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">His bond comes with conditions: he can\u2019t contact the woman who filed the complaint, go near her home, or go near the school she attends, according to a city update posted Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city said Bell hasn\u2019t reached out to staff since his release, and city leaders haven\u2019t been in touch with him either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Under the city\u2019s charter, Bell stays in office unless he steps down or is removed through the process laid out in that document and under state law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cTo the residents of La Marque, we recognize that this is a shocking and disheartening development during a period that has already brought significant uncertainty and challenges to our community,\u201d the city said in its first statement on the arrest. \u201cWe understand and share your concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KBTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA MARQUE, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; La Marque Mayor Keith Bell is out on a $75,000 bond after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-414328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414328","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=414328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}