{"id":479715,"date":"2026-10-28T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479715\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T22:00:09","slug":"71-year-old-booked-in-el-paso-county-jail-on-child-sex-abuse-indecency-charges-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/479715\/","title":{"rendered":"71-year-old booked in El Paso County jail on child sex abuse, indecency charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ELIZARIO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 71-year-old San Elizario man was arrested Tuesday morning on two felony warrants, according to the El Paso County Precinct 6 Constable\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Mario Esparza Montes was taken into custody at about 7:35 a.m. at a residence in the 13,000 block of Bugambilia, the office said. <\/p>\n<p>Deputies were looking for him when a vehicle arrived at the property. <\/p>\n<p>They recognized Montes as the driver and arrested him without incident. <\/p>\n<p>The warrants accuse Montes of continuous sexual abuse of a child younger than 14, a first-degree felony, and indecency with a child by sexual contact, a second-degree felony. <\/p>\n<p>The warrants carry bonds of $200,000 and $150,000, respectively, for a total of $350,000.<\/p>\n<p>Montes was booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility, the release said. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/crime-news\/el-paso-federal-court-sentences-human-smuggler-monstro-to-9-years-in-prison?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso federal court sentences human smuggler &#8216;Monstro&#8217; to 9 years in prison<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ELIZARIO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A 71-year-old San Elizario man was arrested Tuesday morning on two felony warrants,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-479715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479715","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=479715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}