{"id":434367,"date":"2026-09-13T01:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434367\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T01:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T01:42:10","slug":"watch-santa-fe-police-chase-down-texas-man-wanted-on-child-sex-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/434367\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Santa Fe police chase down Texas man wanted on child sex crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH: Santa Fe police chase down Texas man wanted on child sex crimes<\/p>\n<p>Sting operation leads to a car chase and ends in the arrest of a Texas man who travelled to New Mexico to commit child sexual abuse.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6b9f0fe3-6fc7-4512-995f-12efb60689bc_1786128664.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Eliezer Sherman\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Digital Assignment Editor<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">New video shows Santa Fe police chasing down a Texas man on Thursday who&#8217;s been accused of child solicitation and sexual exploitation. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The car chase ended with officers ramming the car of Gabriel Garcia, 47, of Houston and arresting him. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">SFPD&#8217;s Special Victims Unit Internet Crimes Against Children Detectives conducted a sting operation against Garcia in collaboration with Criminal Investigations Detectives and Patrol Section Personnel. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Officers said Garcia thought he was communicating with a child, but it was an officer pretending to be one. Mr. Garcia told the person he thought was a child that he knew their underage status and expressed a desire to commit sexual crimes, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Police say Garcia traveled to Santa Fe to meet with the child after arranging to pay for sex. Once in Santa Fe, detectives initiated a traffic stop, but Garcia fled. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Officers used a PIT maneuver to catch Garcia, forcing his car to spin out on the side of the road. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Garcia already had a warrant out for his arrest in Illinois for sexual assault. He is now booked into the Santa Fe County Detention Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATCH: Santa Fe police chase down Texas man wanted on child sex crimes Sting operation leads to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[68223,150806,75673,150805,150809,34794,150807,150803,1014,2817,150808,3174,14972,150801,150804,150802,27,29,27508,28,11041],"class_list":["post-434367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-car-chase","tag-child-sex-crime","tag-child-sex-crimes","tag-child-solicitation","tag-children-detectives","tag-collaboration","tag-criminal-investigations-detectives","tag-gabriel-garcia","tag-illinois","tag-officer","tag-patrol-section-personnel","tag-road","tag-santa-fe","tag-santa-fe-police","tag-santa-fe-police-chase","tag-sting-operation","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-man","tag-texas-news","tag-traffic-stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434367","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=434367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}