{"id":1197666,"date":"2023-01-27T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1197666"},"modified":"2023-01-29T16:52:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T22:52:37","slug":"four-arrested-in-undercover-sex-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1197666","title":{"rendered":"Four arrested in undercover sex sting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/4-175x116.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"116\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1197667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/4-175x116.png 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/4.png 436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Four men from Smith County were arrested this week for allegedly attempting to solicit sex from what they thought were underage girls, but were actually undercover agents with the attorney general\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office. According to our news partner KETK, their affidavits say the men messaged what they thought was a 17-year-old girl named \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sarah\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on a website \u00e2\u20ac\u0153for offenders soliciting minors for commercial sexual acts in exchange for payment in Tyler.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The account operating under the name \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sarah\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was in reality a sergeant with the Office of the Attorney General who was conducting an online investigation. The suspects are Jose Hernandez, 37, of Tyler; Matthew Organ, 44, of Whitehouse; James Amos, 54 of Flint; and Delano Phelps, 89, of Tyler. Each was arrested for second-degree felony solicitation of prostitution under 18 years old and was freed after posting a $50,000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Four men from Smith County were arrested this week for allegedly attempting to solicit sex from what they thought were underage girls, but were actually undercover agents with the attorney general\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office. According to our news partner KETK, their affidavits say the men messaged what they thought was a 17-year-old girl named \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sarah\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1197666\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four arrested in undercover sex sting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1197671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/4-175x116.png","fifu_image_alt":"Four arrested in undercover sex sting","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 21:07:37","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\/2023\/01\/4-175x116.png","fifu_image_alt":"Four arrested in undercover sex sting","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197666","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=1197666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197669,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197666\/revisions\/1197669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1197671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}