{"id":30186,"date":"2025-08-22T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/?p=30186"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:00:53","slug":"maryland-state-police-arrest-somerset-county-man-for-sex-abuse-of-a-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2025\/08\/22\/maryland-state-police-arrest-somerset-county-man-for-sex-abuse-of-a-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland State Police Arrest Somerset County Man for Sex Abuse of a Minor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(CRISFIELD, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police arrested a man yesterday on charges he sexually abused a minor in Somerset County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gene Sheldon Hughes Jr., 60, of Crisfield, Maryland, is charged with sex abuse of a minor, second-degree assault and other related offenses. Hughes was transported to the Somerset County District Court Commissioner\u2019s Office, where he was ordered to be held without bond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, August 21, 2025, Maryland State Police Investigators from the Princess Anne Criminal Enforcement Division, Eastern Region, obtained an arrest warrant for Hughes Jr. He was located at his home and arrested without incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investigation continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/Hughes-Gene-e1755889060294.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30187 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/Hughes-Gene-e1755889060294-831x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/Hughes-Gene-e1755889060294-831x1024.jpg 831w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/Hughes-Gene-e1755889060294-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/Hughes-Gene-e1755889060294-768x946.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/08\/Hughes-Gene-e1755889060294.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CONTACT:\u00a0 Office of Media Communications, msp.media@maryland.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CRISFIELD, MD) \u2013 Maryland State Police arrested a man yesterday on charges he sexually abused a minor in Somerset County. Gene Sheldon Hughes Jr., 60, of Crisfield, Maryland, is charged with sex abuse of a minor, second-degree assault and other related offenses. Hughes was transported to the Somerset County District Court Commissioner\u2019s Office, where he<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/2025\/08\/22\/maryland-state-police-arrest-somerset-county-man-for-sex-abuse-of-a-minor\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30188,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30186\/revisions\/30188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/msp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}