{"id":1037188,"date":"2021-07-16T14:31:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T19:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1037188"},"modified":"2021-07-18T18:28:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T23:28:30","slug":"suspect-in-multiple-sex-assaults-likely-wont-face-jury-until-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1037188","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in multiple sex assaults likely won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t face jury until spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/07\/smithcounty-courthouse-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1037206\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Tyler man who prosecutors say may have sexually assaulted dozens of teenage girls will likely not have his day in court until at least April of next year. According to our news partner KETK, 24-year-old Luis Ortiz is facing six charges of sexual misconduct. He faces up to life in prison if convicted. Ortiz allegedly posed as a teenager online and would reportedly send graphic messages to minors on social media. At a hearing last August, Smith County prosecutors said they were investigating 66 potential victims. At Friday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s status hearing, defense attorney Matt Bingham said he was told by prosecutors that there was still another hard drive worth of data to examine and it would take a significant amount of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Tyler man who prosecutors say may have sexually assaulted dozens of teenage girls will likely not have his day in court until at least April of next year. According to our news partner KETK, 24-year-old Luis Ortiz is facing six charges of sexual misconduct. He faces up to life in prison if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1037188\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suspect in multiple sex assaults likely won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t face jury until spring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1037209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/07\/smithcounty-courthouse-1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Suspect in multiple sex assaults likely won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t face jury until spring","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 18:06:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/07\/smithcounty-courthouse-1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Suspect in multiple sex assaults likely won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t face jury until spring","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037207,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037188\/revisions\/1037207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1037209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}