{"id":444984,"date":"2026-09-23T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444984\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T09:30:13","slug":"texas-fugitive-wanted-on-child-sex-crime-charges-arrested-in-chattanooga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444984\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas fugitive wanted on child sex crime charges arrested in Chattanooga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. \u2014 A Texas fugitive wanted on child sex crime charges was arrested Tuesday in Chattanooga, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Chattanooga Police say officers took 26-year-old Gavin Coats into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p>Coats is wanted in Fredericksburg, Texas, on a charge of Sexual Performance by a Child and three counts of Online Solicitation of a Minor, according to CPD.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not say where in Chattanooga Coats was found or how investigators learned he was here.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from CPD&#8217;s Special Victims Unit, Neighborhood Policing Bureau, Fugitive Unit and Narcotics\/Vice Unit were involved in the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Coats was booked into the Hamilton County Jail, where police say he is awaiting extradition to Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. \u2014 A Texas fugitive wanted on child sex crime charges was arrested Tuesday in Chattanooga, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-444984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444984","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=444984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}