Overview
- Houston County deputy Skylar Laza, 34, was arrested in Palestine on an aggravated sexual assault of a child charge and later federally indicted for production of child pornography.
- Gladewater police officer Kenan Robert Laza, 29, was arrested at his Longview home on an indecency-with-a-child by exposure charge and was terminated from the department.
- Authorities say a cyber tip routed through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to the North Texas ICAC Task Force led investigators to the suspects and to allegations of multiple assaults.
- Officials report the suspects and the victim are known to one another, with further case details withheld as the investigation continues.
- Agencies assisting include the Dallas Police ICAC Unit and the U.S. Marshals Service, and Skylar Laza is being held at the Anderson County Jail on a $1 million bond.