A 40-year-old man was arrested during a traffic stop on West Kingsbury Street near N. Bowie Street in Seguin at about 7:20 a.m. Thursday, hours after the Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office opened an investigation into a sexual assault reported on Still Meadow Road. Bradley Lyn Baker was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Guadalupe County Adult Detention Center on a warrant charging sexual assault.
The sheriff's office received the complaint tied to Still Meadow Road on Wednesday and worked through the night gathering corroborating details and evidence before investigators identified Baker as the suspect and secured the arrest warrant Thursday morning, according to WOAI. Baker was interviewed after his arrest, per the outlet's reporting. Still Meadow Road sits off FM 467 near Highway 46 in the Seguin area, a stretch of semi-rural residential and acreage properties within the Seguin Independent School District, according to Realtor.com.
Case Details Kept Under Wraps
The sheriff's office is withholding additional details about the incident to protect the integrity of the case and the privacy of those involved, the report notes. That leaves several questions unanswered for now, including the outcome of Baker's initial magistration, what bond he may face at the Adult Detention Center, and whether prosecutors will pursue additional charges or a grand jury indictment as the case moves forward under Texas Penal Code § 22.011.
Under that statute, sexual assault is classified as a second-degree felony in Texas, carrying a punishment range of 2 to 20 years in state prison and a fine of up to $10,000 upon conviction, according to the Turnbull Legal Group. The law defines the offense as non-consensual sexual activity involving penetration or forced contact.
A Sheriff's Office Stretched by Growth
Guadalupe County Sheriff Joshua Ray, a former Texas Ranger special agent and state trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety, took office in January 2025 promising modern policing strategies and expanded investigator training, according to Guadalupe County. Ray has since reported that the county's population is approaching 200,000 residents, a surge that has pushed monthly deputy service calls up by more than 1,100 amid staffing constraints, he said during county budget discussions.
The Adult Detention Center where Baker is now held has a 598-bed capacity and processes roughly 8,000 bookings a year under the sheriff's office's Adult Detention Division. That kind of volume, paired with the county's growth, has put a premium on fast warrant execution — something this case's overnight-to-morning timeline appears to reflect.
Part of a Broader Pattern of Sex-Crime Cases
This is not the first sex-crime case to draw scrutiny to Guadalupe County law enforcement in recent months. In July, Hoodline reported that three county detention officers were investigated for alleged improper sexual contact with an inmate, a case that drew in the Texas Rangers and ended with two officers fired and a third placed on leave. The sheriff's office has also carried out several sexual-offense arrests over the past year, including the November 2025 apprehension of Kenneth Lombard on child sexual assault warrants by the agency's Fugitive Apprehension Unit, and the May 2025 arrest of former Hays County corrections officer George Snell following a 10-month investigation.
Anyone with information related to the Still Meadow Road case is asked to contact the Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office non-emergency line at (830) 379-1224. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through Guadalupe County Crime Stoppers at 1-877-403-8477.
