{"id":426003,"date":"2026-09-04T11:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426003\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T11:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:04:36","slug":"ex-fort-worth-police-officer-accused-of-sexually-harassing-a-minor-while-on-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/426003\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Fort Worth police officer accused of sexually harassing a minor while on force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A former officer is facing charges of soliciting a minor while he was a member of the Fort Worth police force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 &#8220;acting under color of his employment as a public servant, namely a Fort Worth police officer,&#8221; the complaint read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In addition to a charge of online solicitation of a minor, Jackson was charged with official oppression, which is related to using one&#8217;s authority as a public servant to sexually harass or unlawfully arrest, detain, search or otherwise mistreat someone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jackson was listed as a member of the Fort Worth police academy&#8217;s 156th graduating class in February 2024. As an academy graduate, he received special recognition from the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Fort Worth Police Foundation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/fwpolicefoundation.org\/awards-recognition\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" 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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jackson&#8217;s attorney did not return a message left with his office requesting comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\ud83d\udea8 More breaking news:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"> \u25fd\ufe0f Sign up for Star-Telegram <a data-ylk=\"slk:news alerts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/newsletters?newsletter=fortworth_breaking_newsletter\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">news alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former officer is facing charges of soliciting a minor while he was a member of the Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,1279,88164,148119],"class_list":["post-426003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-grand-prairie","tag-jackson","tag-niko-adrian-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426003","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=426003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}