{"id":1043593,"date":"2021-08-04T16:22:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T21:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1043593"},"modified":"2021-08-05T17:41:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T22:41:17","slug":"east-texan-rejects-plea-deal-in-capitol-riot-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1043593","title":{"rendered":"East Texan rejects plea deal in Capitol riot case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/hark-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1043594\" \/>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; An East Texas man who is charged in the January 6 Capitol riot has rejected a plea deal offer from government prosecutors. According to our news partner KETK, 34-year-old Alex Harkrider of Carthage was released on bond in April until his trial. He is charged along with 30-year-old Ryan Nichols, a Longview resident, of several crimes stemming from the riot ranging from civil disorder to assaulting federal officers. Harkrider\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s D.C.-based attorney Kira West announced in a hearing Wednesday that Harkrider would not be taking a plea offer. There was no mention of what kind of deal the U.S. attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office had brought to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; An East Texas man who is charged in the January 6 Capitol riot has rejected a plea deal offer from government prosecutors. According to our news partner KETK, 34-year-old Alex Harkrider of Carthage was released on bond in April until his trial. He is charged along with 30-year-old Ryan Nichols, a Longview &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1043593\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texan rejects plea deal in Capitol riot case<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1043599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/hark-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"East Texan rejects plea deal in Capitol riot case","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 02:07:05","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\/08\/hark-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"East Texan rejects plea deal in Capitol riot case","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043593","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=1043593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043612,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043593\/revisions\/1043612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1043599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}