{"id":452205,"date":"2026-09-30T15:16:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452205\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:16:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:16:30","slug":"2-men-indicted-in-child-predator-sting-operation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/452205\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men indicted in child predator sting operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Two men were indicted by a Lubbock grand jury on Tuesday in connection with a child predator sting operation earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jose Arredondo indictment<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Jose Arredondo, 55\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790781389_15_PIRCTYJTRJGDZED2MZMGACWTRA.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Jose Arredondo, 55(KCBD Graphic)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jose Arredondo, 55, is charged with online solicitation of a minor. He was one of five people arrested in March during \u201cOperation Four Leaf Felony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jose Salazar indictment<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Jose Salazar, 39\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790781390_621_GFKLC7FPTBECDD2YEQHPZT5OD4.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Jose Salazar, 39(KCBD Graphic)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jose Salazar, 39, was also indicted Tuesday in connection with the same operation. He is also charged with online solicitation of a minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to LPD, Salazar contacted an undercover DPS investigator that he thought was actually a 16-year-old girl. Detectives said he continued the conversation thinking that he was talking to a minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Salazar was arrested when he went to meet the undercover agent with the intent to have sex.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Two men were indicted by a Lubbock grand jury on Tuesday in connection with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-452205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452205","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=452205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}