{"id":1035088,"date":"2026-08-31T15:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1035088\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:12:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:12:22","slug":"man-wanted-in-texas-for-sex-assault-of-child-arrested-in-chicago-suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1035088\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wanted in Texas for sex assault of child arrested in Chicago suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786562663_163_default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-0c9d18f6=\"\"\/>       <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; A man wanted in Texas since 2019 for sexual assault of a child was arrested in Chicagoland last week after authorities tracked him to an apartment, according to the Cook County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>   Child sex assault suspect arrested <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Jason Osborne, 44, was taken into custody Aug. 25 by officers with the Cook County Sheriff\u2019s Fugitive Apprehension Team and the U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/jason-osborne.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The sheriff\u2019s office said the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Fugitive Task Force contacted local officers a day earlier asking for help finding Osborne.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Osborne was wanted on an arrest warrant out of Harris County, Texas, for sexual assault of a child. The warrant was issued in 2019, but the sheriff\u2019s office said an error made when the warrant was entered prevented it from being connected to Osborne.<\/p>\n<p> How authorities found him <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the sheriff\u2019s office, Texas authorities learned Osborne might be in the Chicago area following his 2025 Cook County conviction for possession of child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities said a DNA sample Osborne submitted as part of his sex offender registration tied him to the Texas case.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators determined Osborne might be living in the 3800 block of West 95th Street in Evergreen Park.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers went to an apartment there Aug. 25, found Osborne and took him into custody, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Osborne is due in court Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this story came from the Cook County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/evergreen-park\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evergreen Park<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; A man wanted in Texas since 2019 for sexual assault of a child was arrested in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1035089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,155379,5386,1818,50,3187,68],"class_list":["post-1035088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-cook-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-evergreen-park","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1035089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}