{"id":475426,"date":"2026-10-24T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475426\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T12:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:30:14","slug":"2-men-arrested-charged-in-operations-targeting-online-solicitation-of-minors-harris-county-sheriffs-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475426\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men arrested, charged in operations targeting online solicitation of minors, Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Two men were arrested and charged this week after separate operations in Harris County targeting the online solicitation of minors, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez shared on social media that the agency, along with the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable&#8217;s Office and the Department of Public Safety, conducted the joint operation on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities said that 77-year-old Daniel Boyer allegedly chatted online with someone whom he believed to be a 16-year-old girl and intended to meet for sexual activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In another joint operation with Pct. 4 and members of the Houston-Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, HCSO said that 49-year-old Matthew Henderson was allegedly chatting with someone he believed to be a 15-year-old girl and also intended to meet up for sexual activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Gonzalez said that both Boyer and Henderson were taken into custody and charged with online solicitation of a minor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">&#8220;These operations are about more than making arrests,&#8221; Gonzalez stated on social media. &#8220;They\u2019re about identifying threats, preventing harm, and protecting vulnerable children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; Two men were arrested and charged this week after separate operations in Harris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[161025,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-475426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-161025","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475426","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=475426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}