{"id":416433,"date":"2026-08-25T17:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416433\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T17:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:44:12","slug":"dallas-police-officer-fired-for-evading-arrest-in-prostitution-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416433\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas police officer fired for evading arrest in prostitution case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/72l9vk6nrgkb3ei5.jpg\" alt=\"PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Dallas police officer turns himself in after evading arrest\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/72l9vk6nrgkb3ei5.jpg\" alt=\"PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Dallas police officer turns himself in after evading arrest\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-39f6236e=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux fired a police officer who was accused of evading arrest in a prostitution case.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Sr. Cpl. Joshua Gonzalez was terminated following a disciplinary hearing on Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The department said he engaged in adverse conduct when he was arrested for evading arrest, and he failed to obey a lawful order given by a superior officer.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Gonzalez had been a member of the department since August 2010.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">He was assigned to the Criminal Intelligence Division.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/joshua-gonzalez.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Joshua Gonzalez  (Dallas County Jail)<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to an arrest warrant affidavit, the alleged crime happened near Harry Hines Boulevard this past October.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dallas police officers in a marked patrol unit spotted a black Ford Fusion on the side of the road with two females who appeared to be prostitutes. As the officers approached, the vehicle sped off.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The officers followed the vehicle for about 15 seconds with lights and sirens on before deciding to &#8220;let&#8217;em go,&#8221; according to the affidavit. They shared the vehicle&#8217;s license plate information with investigators.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators later learned that the vehicle was registered to the City of Dallas and assigned to the police department&#8217;s Criminal Intelligence Division. Video cameras, police fleet records, cellphone records, and witness statements helped police identify Gonzalez as the driver.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police believe he &#8220;intentionally and knowingly evaded detention with a motor vehicle when he immediately fled from Dallas police officers who attempted to conduct a lawful traffic stop,&#8221; the affidavit states.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Gonzalez turned himself in to face criminal charges in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from a news update from the Dallas Police Department, an affidavit for Joshua Gonzalez, and past news coverage.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/organization\/dallas-police\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Police Department<\/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><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> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux fired a police officer who was accused of evading arrest in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,581,104,103,401,223,1827,216,393],"class_list":["post-416433","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-dallas-police","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416433","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=416433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}