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Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender Details

                    Sunday, 6/1/2025
Pedro Garza, Jr.
Up To $3,000 Reward
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RACE: White (Hispanic) SEX: Male DOB: 2/27/1967
HEIGHT: 5'10" WEIGHT: 145    
AKA: Pedro Garza, Peter Garza
SMT: Has been known to wear glasses.
FBI #: 16263CB7
SID #: TX05536360
TDC #: 01228250
WANTED FOR: Failure to Comply with Sex Offender Registration Requirements
CCH: Aggravated Sexual Assault, Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child, Failure to Comply with Sex Offender Registration Requirements, Injure Child Serious Bodily Injury/Mental, Assault Causes Bodily Injury, Terroristic Threat of Family/Household Member
DATE     
CAPTURED: 5/1/2025
CAPTURE  
LOCATION: Runge, Texas
CAPTURING
AGENCY: Texas DPS CID
CAUTION: Subject should be considered ARMED and DANGEROUS!
CAPTURE DETAILS:

Pedro GARZA, Jr., a Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender, was captured on May 1, 2025, in Runge, Texas. Working off investigative information, DPS Special Agents from Victoria located and arrested GARZA.In 2003, GARZA was convicted of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child following an incident with an 8-year-old girl. He was subsequently sentenced to 7 years’ probation. In 2004, GARZA was convicted of Failure to Comply with Sex Offender Registration Requirements and subsequently sentenced to 5 years confinement.GARZA had been wanted since December 2024, after a warrant was issued for his arrest out of Nueces County for Failure to Comply with Sex Offender Registration Requirements.GARZA’s arrest was not from tip information received through Texas Crime Stoppers, so no reward will be paid.

To be eligible for the cash rewards, tipsters must provide information to authorities using one of the following methods:
• Call the Texas Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477)
• Submit a web tip through the Texas 10 Most Wanted website or Facebook page • Submit a tip through the DPS Mobile App
All tips are anonymous – regardless of how they are submitted, and tipsters will be provided a tip number instead of using a name.
Callers’ anonymity is guaranteed by law and you could earn up to the CASH REWARD amount listed for each fugitive.
These fugitives should be considered Armed and Dangerous! Never try to apprehend a fugitive yourself.

To be eligible for the cash rewards, tipsters must provide information to authorities using one of the following methods: • Call the Texas Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477) • Submit a web tip through the Texas 10 Most Wanted website or Facebook page • Submit a tip through the DPS Mobile App All tips are anonymous – regardless of how they are submitted, and tipsters will be provided a tip number instead of using a name. Callers’ anonymity is guaranteed by law and you could earn up to the CASH REWARD amount listed for each fugitive. These fugitives should be considered Armed and Dangerous! Never try to apprehend a fugitive yourself.


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