{"id":1264618,"date":"2023-10-03T18:19:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T23:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1264618"},"modified":"2023-10-05T00:05:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T05:05:32","slug":"2-juveniles-escape-custody-in-east-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1264618","title":{"rendered":"Juveniles back in custody following escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-843432\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/01\/sheriff-smithcounty-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Two juveniles are back in custody following their escape Tuesday. Officials said they were apprehended around 9:30 Wednesday morning by Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office deputies and taken to the Smith County Juvenile Attention Center. Law enforcement officials had been\u00c2\u00a0 searching for two 16-year-old males that escaped the custody of a juvenile detention center after authorities said they scaled a fence. According to our news partner KETK, on Tuesday around 2:30 p.m., the two juveniles were in the welding shop of the H.O.P.E. Academy Vocational Residential Program when authorities said they ran away after scaling a fence while using welding gloves and jackets to help them \u00e2\u20ac\u0153defeat the security wire on the fence.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The juveniles are on probation for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; Two juveniles are back in custody following their escape Tuesday. Officials said they were apprehended around 9:30 Wednesday morning by Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office deputies and taken to the Smith County Juvenile Attention Center. Law enforcement officials had been\u00c2\u00a0 searching for two 16-year-old males that escaped the custody of a juvenile detention &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1264618\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Juveniles back in custody following escape<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3908,"featured_media":1264621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/01\/sheriff-smithcounty-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"2 juveniles escape custody in East Texas","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 22:31:53","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\/2020\/01\/sheriff-smithcounty-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"2 juveniles escape custody in East Texas","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264618","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\/3908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264618"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264768,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264618\/revisions\/1264768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}