Overview
- A judge set Mayor Matthew Dantzer’s bail at $15,000 on charges of assault on a pregnant person and official oppression.
- Dantzer remains in the Tarrant County Jail as the Texas Rangers continue their investigation, and his attorney denies the allegations.
- The Magnolia City Council has called a special session to discuss the arrest and two federal lawsuits filed by City Secretary Christian Gable and former HR director Kristy Powell.
- Gable says Dantzer tried to pull down her pants and choked her outside a Fort Worth conference hotel in October 2025 when she was five months pregnant.
- An outside city review of Gable’s HR complaint was labeled inconclusive with no action taken, and her attorney cites years of crude comments and a denied remote-work request while the mayor’s lawyer declines further comment.