A 58-year-old Seguin man already on probation for child sex crimes was arrested again this past week, this time accused of a new indecency-with-a-child offense and of giving marijuana to a minor, according to the Guadalupe County Sheriff's Office. Emanuel Bishop Jr. was initially taken into custody on Oct. 15 on a second-degree felony charge of failing to comply with sex-offender registration requirements, and investigators soon followed up with two more warrants.
According to the San Antonio Express-News, Bishop faces charges of indecency with a child involving sexual conduct and delivery of marijuana to a minor, both attributed to the sheriff's office. As reported by Yahoo News, investigators said Bishop had been using a phone number and a social media account he had not reported, a violation of sex-offender registration laws.
Investigation Traces Back to Memory Lane Report
The case began after the Seguin Police Department contacted the sheriff's office about an alleged indecency-with-a-child offense reported in the 200 block of Memory Lane in Seguin, per the same account. That tip led investigators to obtain two more arrest warrants charging Bishop with indecency with a child and providing marijuana to a child, both described as second-degree felony charges. Bishop was arrested at his residence and booked into the Guadalupe County Adult Detention Center without incident, the article notes.
The sheriff's office said it did not specify the nature of the newly alleged offense, and it did not say whether the unreported phone number or social media account was connected to the new allegations, according to the Express-News. Bishop's bail now totals $1.1 million, court records show, per the Express-News.
A 2022 Plea and a Sentence the Sheriff Calls Too Lenient
Bishop is currently serving a 10-year term of deferred-adjudication community supervision in Guadalupe County stemming from three prior indecency-with-a-child cases, the sheriff's office said. He was placed on that supervision in 2022 after pleading guilty to three counts of indecency with a child involving sexual contact, with county court records attributing the underlying offenses to 2019. Guadalupe County Sheriff Joshua Ray criticized the prior sentence and emphasized the importance of protecting children, according to the same report.
Under Texas law, deferred adjudication allows a defendant to avoid a formal conviction while completing a term of community supervision, as outlined in the state's Chapter 42A Community Supervision statute. Indecency with a child is defined under Texas Penal Code 21.11, and registration obligations for offenders like Bishop fall under Chapter 62.001 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
How Texas Tracks Registered Offenders
The Texas Department of Public Safety describes its sex-offender registration and public-notification program as a tool designed to protect the public, requiring both adult and juvenile offenders to register with local law enforcement, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Bishop's alleged use of an unreported phone and social media account is the kind of registration violation that program is meant to catch.
Cases involving registered offenders accused of circumventing those requirements have surfaced elsewhere in recent weeks. A Sept. 30 report from KNOE described a registered sex offender arrested on social-media and drug charges, while FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth reported that Markus Hudson Jr. was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for using social media to coerce victims into child sexual abuse acts. Those cases remain separate from Bishop's, with no established connection beyond the broader pattern of offenders and online platforms colliding with registration law.
