{"id":462423,"date":"2026-10-10T20:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T20:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462423\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T20:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T20:42:11","slug":"a-fort-worth-associate-pastor-faces-child-indecency-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/462423\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fort Worth associate pastor faces child indecency charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791664929_408_breakingphoto.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A 48-year-old associate pastor in Fort Worth was arrested Wednesday, Oct. 7, in Grapevine on family violence and indecency with a child charges, according to court records.\" alt=\"A 48-year-old associate pastor in Fort Worth was arrested Wednesday, Oct. 7, in Grapevine on family violence and indecency with a child charges, according to court records.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A 48-year-old associate pastor in Fort Worth was arrested Wednesday, Oct. 7, in Grapevine on family violence and indecency with a child charges, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>            Star-Telegram illustration\/Ricky Moon photo<\/p>\n<p>An associate pastor at a Fort Worth church was arrested Wednesday and faces indecency with a child and family violence charges, according to police and court records.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Dillard is currently being held in the Tarrant County Jail on a $230,000 bond. The 48-year-old was arrested Wednesday in Grapevine on one count each of assault causes bodily injury to a family member, indecency with a child sexual contact and assault on a family or household member impedes breathing or circulation, according to the inmate booking report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the nature and status of the investigation, no other information is available for release,\u201d a Grapevine Police Department spokesperson told the Star-Telegram in an email Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Dillard works as an associate pastor at IMRSN Church in Fort Worth, according to information on his Instagram and Facebook bios. The Star-Telegram has reached out to the church via their published email address for comment.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear if Dillard has retained an attorney to represent him.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/262053942\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791664931_283_Headshot.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Harriet Ramos\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/262053942\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harriet Ramos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Harriet Ramos covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 48-year-old associate pastor in Fort Worth was arrested Wednesday, Oct. 7, in Grapevine on family violence and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-462423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462423","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=462423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}