{"id":67932,"date":"2025-11-28T01:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T01:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/67932\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T01:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T01:38:11","slug":"houston-man-arrested-for-taking-2-victims-to-round-rock-for-prostitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/67932\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston man arrested for taking 2 victims to Round Rock for prostitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/brandon-williams.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">ROUND ROCK, Texas &#8211; A Houston man was arrested for compelling prostitution in Round Rock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police said the suspect was holding two women against their will.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTBC\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Round Rock police said on Nov. 26, officers received a tip reporting possible human trafficking at a home in Round Rock. The caller said a female relative was being held against her will and was forced to engage in sex acts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">When officers arrived, they made contact with three people. They were identified as 39-year-old Brandon Williams and two women in their 20s, all from Houston.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">One of the victims told police that Williams took them from Houston to Round Rock to engage in prostitution and was not letting them leave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Officers also found a gun in Williams&#8217; possession. He was arrested for compelling prostitution.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Both women were rescued and are being provided with support and resources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">For help or resources related to human trafficking, contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 888-373-7888.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from the Round Rock Police Department<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/williamson-county\/round-rock\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Round Rock<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox7austin.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ROUND ROCK, Texas &#8211; A Houston man was arrested for compelling prostitution in Round Rock.\u00a0 Police said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1046,56,58,57,223,6240,216,393,2538],"class_list":{"0":"post-67932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-round-rock","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-williamson-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67932","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=67932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}