Top 10 wanted sex offender arrested in Galveston

Feb. 10, Joe Hernandez, a Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender, was taken into custody by the Galveston Police Department after turning himself in.

In 1998, Hernandez was convicted of three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child following incidents involving 2-year-old and 7-year-old girls. He received three concurrent 8-year sentences of confinement. In 2007, he was convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm and sentenced to two years’ confinement. Three years later, he was convicted of failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements and received a three-year sentence.

Hernandez had been wanted since Jan. 28, 2021, after the Galveston Police Department issued a warrant for his arrest for failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements.