{"id":133365,"date":"2011-10-14T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=133365"},"modified":"2011-10-16T16:07:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T21:07:37","slug":"pair-sentenced-for-killing-two-in-east-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=133365","title":{"rendered":"Pair Sentenced for Killing Two in East Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=133366\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-133366\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/10\/thumb_sheriff-ruskcounty.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_sheriff-ruskcounty\" width=\"109\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-133366\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHENDERSON (AP) &#8211; Authorities say two men have pleaded guilty to a double slaying in which the victims were shot and dumped along a road in East Texas last year.   The Rusk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Friday said that 24-year-old Drake Dario Blanton, of Cushing, was sentenced to life in prison for each victim.   Twenty-five-year-old Jason Terell Hunt, of Jacksonville, received 35 years in prison for his role in the January 2010 murders.    The victims, 29-year-old Rigoberto Tovar Pina and 27-year-old Steve Abran Parra, both of Center, died from gunshot wounds.   Blanton and Hunt were arrested five days after the shooting in a vehicle that belonged to Pina.   Sgt. Viki Penny says Blanton&#8217;s thumbprint on a spent shell case helped state and local authorities quickly solve the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON (AP) &#8211; Authorities say two men have pleaded guilty to a double slaying in which the victims were shot and dumped along a road in East Texas last year. The Rusk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office on Friday said that 24-year-old Drake Dario Blanton, of Cushing, was sentenced to life in prison for each victim. Twenty-five-year-old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=133365\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pair Sentenced for Killing Two in East Texas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 23:54:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133365","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133365"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133756,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133365\/revisions\/133756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}