{"id":1053525,"date":"2021-09-02T14:33:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T19:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1053525"},"modified":"2021-09-03T14:44:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T19:44:22","slug":"more-charges-in-child-kidnapping-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1053525","title":{"rendered":"More charges in child kidnapping case"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"RUSK \u00e2\u20ac\u201c More charges are being added in a recent kidnapping that prompted an Amber Alert. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office says 32-year-old Jesse Schmidt now faces charges of aggravated kidnapping and continuous sexual abuse of a child. Schmidt was already charged with kidnapping. The alert was activated early Tuesday for two children who were later found with Schmidt at a Kilgore motel. Schmidt remains jailed in Cherokee County on $500,000 bond. The sheriff’s office says the case remains active pending further investigation. According to our news partner KETK, 11-year-old Desmond Wells and 10-year-old Ashlynn Wells had last been seen in the Rusk area Monday afternoon when the alert was activated. Officials say they have now been released to CPS custody. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSK \u00e2\u20ac\u201c More charges are being added in a recent kidnapping that prompted an Amber Alert. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office says 32-year-old Jesse Schmidt now faces charges of aggravated kidnapping and continuous sexual abuse of a child. Schmidt was already charged with kidnapping. The alert was activated early Tuesday for two children who were … Continue reading More charges in child kidnapping case<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1053533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/08\/2021-08-31_100935-175x56.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"More charges in child kidnapping case","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 20:46:26","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\/2021-08-31_100935-175x56.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"More charges in child kidnapping case","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053525","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=1053525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053531,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053525\/revisions\/1053531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1053533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}