{"id":470461,"date":"2026-10-19T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T11:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470461\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T11:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T11:58:11","slug":"bedford-man-wanted-for-indecency-with-a-child-arrested-in-west-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470461\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedford man wanted for indecency with a child arrested in West Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-47e62d5a=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">BEDFORD, Texas &#8211; Members of a West Texas task force arrested a wanted fugitive from Bedford on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">On Oct. 15, members of the TAG Center &#8211; Permian Basin found Joshua Smith in the 4100 block of East 42nd Street in Odessa.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Authorities wanted Smith on a fugitive warrant for indecency with a child out of Bedford.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Officers arrested Smith and booked him into the Midland County Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">\u00a0Authorities did not release additional details regarding the original charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The TAG Center &#8211; Permian Basin is made up of officers from multiple local, state, and federal agencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The group includes members from the Midland County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Ector County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Midland Police Department, Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Midland County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Federal partners include the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations in El Paso, the U.S. Marshals Service Western District of Texas, and the Drug Enforcement Administration in El Paso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from Texas Anti-Gang Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article BEDFORD, Texas &#8211; Members of a West Texas task force arrested a wanted fugitive from Bedford on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,1046,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-470461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470461","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=470461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}