{"id":1064611,"date":"2021-10-08T15:27:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1064611"},"modified":"2021-10-10T08:05:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T13:05:07","slug":"longtime-pastor-community-leader-jailed-over-alleged-financial-improprieties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1064611","title":{"rendered":"Longtime pastor, community leader jailed over alleged financial improprieties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/10\/Jerome-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1064612\" \/>TYLER &#8212; A local pastor and longtime high-profile community figure is accused of taking money from an elderly couple and stealing from his previous church. According to our news partner KETK, Smith County jail records show 65-year-old Jerome Milton was arrested Oct. 2 for theft between $2,500 and $30,000 and two counts of credit or debit card abuse against the elderly. Milton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bond was set collectively at $550,000, and he remains in jail. Milton originated the long-running Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance in downtown Tyler.  He was also a dean and longtime head track coach at Bishop Gorman, winning 10 state track championships. We will continue to follow this story as it develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A local pastor and longtime high-profile community figure is accused of taking money from an elderly couple and stealing from his previous church. According to our news partner KETK, Smith County jail records show 65-year-old Jerome Milton was arrested Oct. 2 for theft between $2,500 and $30,000 and two counts of credit or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1064611\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longtime pastor, community leader jailed over alleged financial improprieties<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1064616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/10\/Jerome-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Longtime pastor, community leader jailed over alleged financial improprieties","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064611","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 11:41:07","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\/10\/Jerome-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Longtime pastor, community leader jailed over alleged financial improprieties","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064611","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=1064611"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064780,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064611\/revisions\/1064780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1064616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}