{"id":59934,"date":"2025-11-21T22:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/59934\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T22:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T22:37:12","slug":"former-houston-police-captain-facing-federal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/59934\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Houston police captain facing federal charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/daryn-edwards-mug.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">GALVESTON, Texas &#8211; A former Houston police captain has been taken into federal custody for several charges.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of Texas, Daryn Edwards, 59, is facing two counts of coercion and enticement of a minor, two counts of sexual exploitation of children and one count of possession of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">A federal grand jury returned the indictment on Nov. 18, and he made his initial court appearance on Friday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Edwards was initially arrested in February by Galveston County authorities on separate charges. He was charged with aggravated sexual assault, possession of child pornography and sexual performance of a child.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">At the time, police confirmed that Edwards was a 32-year veteran and was relieved of duty pending the outcome of an Internal Affairs Division Investigation. The department says he retired in March.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/new-details-about-hpd-captains-arrest-child-pornography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">More on the initial arrest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of Texas and previous FOX 26 reporting.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/galveston-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Galveston County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article GALVESTON, Texas &#8211; A former Houston police captain has been taken into federal custody for several charges.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,12597,56,58,57,223,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-59934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-galveston-county","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934","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=59934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}