{"id":1169114,"date":"2022-10-05T16:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T21:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1169114"},"modified":"2022-10-06T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T21:22:13","slug":"repeat-felon-gets-95-years-for-assaulting-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1169114","title":{"rendered":"Repeat felon gets 95 years for assaulting deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/10\/smithcounty-courthouse-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1169121\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Officials say an assault on a Smith County sheriff&#8217;s deputy has led to a 95-year prison sentence for a 41-year-old repeat felon.  According to a news release from the Smith County DA&#8217;s Office, on August 24, 2021, the Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office received multiple reports of a man wandering in the middle of State Hwy. 14 near County Road 310 pointing a gun at passing cars. Deputies arrived on scene and detained Christian Dewayne Smith while they investigated. Smith then assaulted one of the deputies by biting him on the wrist.  A jury first found Smith guilty of assault on a public servant, then passed sentence after hearing evidence of Smith&#8217;s extensive criminal history &#8212; which includes 13 prior criminal convictions and multiple prison sentences. Smith was on parole for a 2016 felony drug conviction when he assaulted the deputy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Officials say an assault on a Smith County sheriff&#8217;s deputy has led to a 95-year prison sentence for a 41-year-old repeat felon. According to a news release from the Smith County DA&#8217;s Office, on August 24, 2021, the Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office received multiple reports of a man wandering in the middle of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1169114\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Repeat felon gets 95 years for assaulting deputy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1169124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/10\/smithcounty-courthouse-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Repeat felon gets 95 Years for assaulting deputy","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 10:48:53","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\/2022\/10\/smithcounty-courthouse-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Repeat felon gets 95 Years for assaulting deputy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169114","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=1169114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169125,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169114\/revisions\/1169125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}