{"id":424585,"date":"2026-09-03T02:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424585\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T02:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:42:12","slug":"former-fort-worth-officer-charged-with-soliciting-a-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424585\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Fort Worth officer charged with soliciting a minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Fort Worth PD car22.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Archive photo of a Fort Worth police SUV\" alt=\"Black and white Fort Worth police SUV with red and blue police lights turned on. A former Fort Worth police officer was charged this week with soliciting a minor for sex while he worked for the police department.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Archive photo of a Fort Worth police SUV<\/p>\n<p>            Courtesy: Fort Worth police<\/p>\n<p>A former officer is facing charges of soliciting a minor while he was a member of the Fort Worth police force.<\/p>\n<p>Niko Adrian Jackson, 32, of Grand Prairie, requested sexual favors throughout 2025 from a person he knew to be younger than 17, a criminal complaint alleges. He did this \u201cacting under color of his employment as a public servant, namely a Fort Worth police officer,\u201d the complaint read.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to a charge of online solicitation of a minor, Jackson was charged with official oppression, which is related to using one\u2019s authority as a public servant to sexually harass or unlawfully arrest, detain, search or otherwise mistreat someone.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Prairie police arrested Jackson on Aug. 14, according to online records, and he was charged in Tarrant County District Court on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson was listed as a member of the Fort Worth police academy\u2019s 156th graduating class in February 2024. As an academy graduate, he received special recognition from the <a href=\"https:\/\/fwpolicefoundation.org\/awards-recognition\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth Police Foundation<\/a>. A spokesperson for the city of Fort Worth said Jackson resigned from the police department in January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson\u2019s attorney did not return a message left with his office requesting comment.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/298566418\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Matt_Adams.jpeg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Matt Adams\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/298566418\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Adams<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Matt Adams is a news reporter covering Fort Worth, Tarrant County and surrounding areas. He previously wrote about aviation and travel and enjoys a good weekend road trip. Matt joined the Star-Telegram in January 2025.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Archive photo of a Fort Worth police SUV Courtesy: Fort Worth police A former officer is facing charges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-424585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424585","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=424585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}