{"id":442339,"date":"2026-09-20T22:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T22:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442339\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T22:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T22:08:11","slug":"venezuelan-fugitive-wanted-for-child-sexual-assault-captured-in-travis-county-following-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442339\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan fugitive wanted for child sexual assault captured in Travis County following tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fermin-alejandro-calles-garcia-mug.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; A wanted fugitive listed among Texas&#8217; 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants has been captured in Travis County following a tip to law enforcement, state officials said.<\/p>\n<p>   Child predator arrested in Travis County <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Big picture view:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Fermin Alejandro Calles Garcia, 24, of Venezuela, was taken into custody without incident on Sept. 5 during a traffic stop in Northwest Travis County.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers with the Cedar Park Police Department conducted the stop after receiving a tip regarding his whereabouts. Special agents with the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division in Austin assisted in the operation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Calles Garcia had been wanted out of Travis County since March 2025 on charges of sexual assault of a child and stalking, as well as an outstanding misdemeanor warrant for assault causing bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A Crime Stoppers reward will be paid for the tip that led to his arrest, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Tips can be submitted anonymously through the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS, via the Texas Department of Public Safety website, or through the agency&#8217;s official Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article is from the Texas Department of Public Safety,.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/travis-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travis County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas &#8211; A wanted fugitive listed among Texas&#8217; 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1046,223,394,216,393],"class_list":["post-442339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-travis-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442339","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=442339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}