{"id":430871,"date":"2026-09-09T18:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/430871\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T18:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:38:19","slug":"two-of-texas-10-most-wanted-sex-offenders-captured-in-south-texas-and-near-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/430871\/","title":{"rendered":"Two of Texas&#8217; 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders captured in south Texas and near Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Two of Texas&#8217; most wanted sex offenders are in DPS custody following their arrests last week.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials arrested 40-year-old Elliott Thomas Reed on Wednesday, Sept. 2 near Fort Worth and 56-year-old Abelardo Garza in south Texas on Sept. 3, according to Texas DPS.<\/p>\n<p>Reed was arrested at a residence in Benbrook. He had been wanted since April 2026 after a warrant was issued for a parole violation, DPS says.<\/p>\n<p>According to DPS, Reed has been convicted of many crimes since 2005, including sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl, evading arrest, drug charges, weapons charges, and assault. Reed was sentenced to four years in prison for his sexual assault of a child conviction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/pickup-driver-seriously-injured-in-crash-with-construction-vehicle-near-tesla-gigafactory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Pickup driver seriously injured in crash with construction vehicle near Tesla Gigafactory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Garza was arrested at a residence in Brownsville on Thursday. He had been wanted since June 2026 for failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements, according to DPS.<\/p>\n<p>DPS says that Garza had previous convictions of aggravated sexual assault of a child after an incident involving an 8-year-old girl in Cameron County. He was sentenced to eight years of probation and was required to register quarterly as a sex offender for life.<\/p>\n<p>Reed and Garza were both listed on Texas&#8217; Top 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Two of Texas&#8217; most wanted sex offenders are in DPS custody following their arrests last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-430871","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\/430871","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=430871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}