{"id":481202,"date":"2026-10-30T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T07:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481202\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T07:48:09","slug":"fort-worth-man-accused-of-kidnapping-beating-woman-with-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481202\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth man accused of kidnapping, beating woman with bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793346489_141_breakingphoto.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.\" alt=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters.<\/p>\n<p>            Star-Telegram illustration\/Ricky Moon photo<\/p>\n<p>A Fort Worth man was arrested Tuesday after he was accused of kidnapping a 29-year-old woman, according to a police report.<\/p>\n<p>Michael McCoy, 34, faces a charge of kidnapping the woman and holding her for three days.<\/p>\n<p>The woman called police and said that the man, whom she called a friend, had held her since Sunday and beaten her with a baseball bat multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>McCoy faces a charge of aggravated kidnapping causing bodily harm. He is being held in the Tarrant County Jail on a $25,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published October 29, 2026 at 8:36 PM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters. Star-Telegram illustration\/Ricky Moon photo A Fort Worth man was arrested Tuesday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-481202","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\/481202","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=481202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}