{"id":111158,"date":"2025-08-01T20:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111158\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T20:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T20:28:11","slug":"houston-doctor-charged-with-assault-of-a-peace-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/111158\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston doctor charged with assault of a peace officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No description found<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A Houston-based doctor has been charged with assaulting a peace officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Octavio E. Pajaro, M.D., Ph.D. was arrested on Thursday morning. He appeared in PC court at 3 a.m. Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Dr. Pajaro serves as professor of surgery and associate chief at Baylor College of Medicine and the chief of cardiothoracic surgery at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The circumstances that led up to the arrest remain unclear at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Dr. Pajaro is out after posting a $10,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the Author<img alt=\"Michael Horton headshot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/f73d30ac-a3f9-4b7f-8bd0-76456abf79f8.jpg\" width=\"86\" height=\"86\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"\/><a class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__LinkBase-sc-1fnzlkn-9 eUojqd gMnWPT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/team\/TB0VZ7DB5PYO36DHL4XWDRPJST\/\" title=\"View Michael Horton&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Horton<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 gnunoy bOlrXa\">Michael is a Kingwood native who loves visiting local restaurants and overreacting to Houston sports. He joined the KPRC 2 family in the spring of 2024. He earned his BA from Texas A&amp;M University in 2022 and his MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No description found A Houston-based doctor has been charged with assaulting a peace officer. Octavio E. Pajaro, M.D.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":111159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[70618,4219,4345,47780,50,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-111158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-baylor-college-of-medicine","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-medical-center","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114955400473962315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111158","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=111158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}