{"id":466324,"date":"2026-10-15T01:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/466324\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T01:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:46:16","slug":"woman-sentenced-for-operating-unlicensed-group-homes-across-north-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/466324\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman sentenced for operating unlicensed group homes across North Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; An North Texas woman will spend decades in prison for her role in operating unlicensed group homes that resulted in over a dozen deaths.<\/p>\n<p> Regla Becquer sentenced   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Regla-Becquer-Tarrant-Co-Jail-mug.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-7f188271=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f188271=\"\">Regla Becquer (Tarrant County Jail) <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Regla Becquer, who operated unlicensed group homes in North Texas, was sentenced to 28 years in prison and two years in state jail this week.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Becquer pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide, abandoning or endangering an individual, and financial elder abuse.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Becquer was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/loving-and-caring-for-people-llc-regla-su-beceur-arrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">arrested<\/a> in 2024 after a woman complained of abusive conditions inside a group home Becquer operated under Loving and Caring for People LLC.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">The company operated five group homes that cared for adults with physical and mental disabilities across Arlington, Mansfield and Grand Prairie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Police say at least 13 people died at those homes from September 2022 to March 2024, when Becquer was arrested.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">One of the homes Becquer used as an unlicensed group home came into her possession under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/regla-su-becquer-loving-and-caring-for-people-llc-living-will-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">questionable circumstances<\/a>. The previous owner gave the home to Becquer in a one-sentence will just days before she died.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Becquer&#8217;s case led to changes in Texas state law regarding operation and oversight of group homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from court records and previous FOX 4 reporting.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/arlington\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arlington<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; An North Texas woman will spend decades in prison for her role in operating unlicensed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[150,1046,223,122,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":["post-466324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-arlington","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466324","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=466324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}