Former East Texan Freed in the Middle East

EAST TEXAS – (AP & STAFF) A former East Texan has been freed after being abducted 18 months ago in Yemen. President Donald Trump announced that Danny Burch, had been freed. It’s unclear who kidnapped him in September 2017. Birch, who was working in the oil field as a mechanic, was abducted in a busy street in the middle of the day. He grew up in White Oak and lived in Kilgore for years. Army Sgt. Maj. Cale Burch is one of Danny Burch’s three children from an earlier marriage. He told The Associated Press that his father is “safe, and that’s all that really matters to me.” Burch says he got a phone call Sunday from the FBI letting him know his father’s release had been brokered.