{"id":482561,"date":"2026-10-31T18:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/482561\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:02:19","slug":"el-paso-police-officer-arrested-after-sexual-incident-while-on-duty-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/482561\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso police officer arrested after sexual incident while on duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 An El Paso police officer is facing a criminal charge after investigators said he engaged in a sexual incident while on duty.<\/p>\n<p>The El Paso Police Department said Jorge Andres Minjares, 23, was arrested Friday and charged with official oppression, with bond set at $25,000.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/two-men-charged-in-el-paso-after-police-say-they-filed-false-stolen-vehicle-reports?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Two men charged in El Paso after police say they filed false stolen-vehicle reports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators said that on Sept. 19, Minjares was responding to a call at the Econo Lodge Inn &amp; Suites, 7651 N. Mesa, when a woman reported that he engaged in sexual contact with her without her consent.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Minjares is an 8-month probationary officer and has been placed on administrative leave without pay.<\/p>\n<p>Jail records show Minajres was booked and released the same day after posting a surety bond.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-fugitive-arrested-in-albuquerque-on-aggravated-assault-with-a-deadly-weapon?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso fugitive arrested in Albuquerque on aggravated assault with a deadly weapon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.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":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 An El Paso police officer is facing a criminal charge after investigators said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-482561","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\/482561","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=482561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}