{"id":433687,"date":"2026-09-12T08:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T08:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/433687\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T08:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T08:16:12","slug":"houston-suspect-charged-with-child-exploitation-fleeing-police-in-santa-fe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/433687\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston suspect charged with child exploitation, fleeing police in Santa Fe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Fe police arrested a 47-year-old Houston man after they said he tried to meet a child for sex and then fled during a traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SANTA FE, N.M. \u2013 Santa Fe police arrested a 47-year-old Houston man after they said he tried to meet a child for sex and then fled during a traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santa Fe police said officers arrested Gabriel Garcia on Thursday afternoon after a Special Victims Unit internet crimes investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said the investigation began when Garcia communicated with an undercover detective he believed was a child. Police said Garcia acknowledged the underaged status and expressed his desire to commit sexual crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said Garcia traveled to Santa Fe and tried to meet the child in the south side of Santa Fe after arranging to pay for a sexual act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said detectives tried to stop Garcia\u2019s vehicle, but he fled and led officers on a brief chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said Garcia tried to enter the northbound lanes of Interstate 25 after passing a vehicle on the shoulder. Police said a uniformed officer used a Pursuit Intervention Technique to stop the vehicle and take Garcia into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said the investigation also found Garcia had an outstanding Illinois warrant for Sexual Assault\/Aggravated Criminal Sex Abuse involving a victim between 13 and 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santa Fe police said Garcia faces eight counts of child solicitation by electronic device, one count of sexual exploitation of children by prostitution, one count of attempted criminal sexual penetration of a minor in the first degree and one count of aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garcia will be booked into the Santa Fe County Adult Detention Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santa Fe police arrested a 47-year-old Houston man after they said he tried to meet a child for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-433687","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\/433687","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=433687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}