{"id":783905,"date":"2026-05-09T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783905\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:00:16","slug":"arlington-police-officer-arrested-charged-with-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/783905\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington Police officer arrested, charged with sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\"><strong>ARLINGTON, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; The Arlington Police Department says one of their officers is behind bars after an alleged sexual assault while he was on-duty.<\/p>\n<p> Arlington Police officer arrested   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/derreck-dean-mug.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">36-year-old Derrick Dean was arrested on May 8 after an investigation into an alleged sexual assault that happened while he was on-duty.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police say on Apr. 11, Dean responded to a call for service involving a woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">From Apr. 17 to Apr. 18, he reportedly returned to her residence while on-duty, including a visit where the inappropriate sexual contact took place. None of the visits were in response to a call.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Dean covered his body camera during all three visits. He had been placed on administrative leave on Apr. 21 during the department&#8217;s investigation, and had been employed with the department since 2016.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">He is now charged with one count of sexual assault and one count of official oppression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this story comes from the Arlington Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/arlington\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arlington<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; The Arlington Police Department says one of their officers is behind bars after an alleged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":783906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7948,6082,7371,7372,50,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-783905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arlington","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tarrant-county","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116543804422209483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783905","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=783905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}