{"id":820443,"date":"2026-03-19T03:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/820443\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T03:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:33:19","slug":"texas-medical-board-suspends-houston-physicians-license-after-his-arrest-on-child-porn-possession-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/820443\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Medical Board suspends Houston physician\u2019s license after his arrest on child porn possession charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">HOUSTON \u2013 The Texas Medical Board has suspended the license of a Houston doctor following his arrest on a possession of child pornography charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">An Q. Van was arrested on Feb. 12 for the state charge. Records show he posted an $80,000 bond and was released from jail but was arrested again on federal charges in March. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">So far, the FBI has not shared details about what led to his arrest on federal charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">A document for the Order of Temporary Suspension on the Texas Medical Board\u2019s website states the investigation started in March 2025, when the Houston Police Department received a report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children with notice that Meta identified a user that appeared to be a child victim. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Subsequent investigation determined the victim as a resident of the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Police contacted the victim by email in Nov. 2025 and learned she was 15 years old. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The victim said Van had been threatening her since she was 10. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The victim told police she had sent nude photos to Van, and he had threatened to release them to her friends and family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The document says the victim provided police several images that had been sent to Van as well as screenshots of their communications on Discord.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On Feb. 12, HPD executed a warrant at Van\u2019s home and found an external hard drive hidden in a toilet tank containing over fifty images of child pornography, according to the document.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Texas Medical Board found that Van\u2019s continued practice of medicine constitutes a continuing threat to the public and suspended his license effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking News Alerts<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kiwhtN\">More Stories Like This In Our Email Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 The Texas Medical Board has suspended the license of a Houston doctor following his arrest on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[113912,113913,9488,7,221,253,2368,6,222,113911],"class_list":["post-820443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-texans","tag-an-q-van","tag-child-porn","tag-crime","tag-football","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-houstontexans","tag-nfl","tag-texans","tag-texas-medical-board"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116253740580573547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}