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WILLS POINT \u2014 According to a report from our news partner, KETK, an East Texas teacher has been arrested following allegations of sex crimes against children.<\/p>\nWILLS POINT \u2014 According to a report from our news partner, KETK, an East Texas teacher has been arrested following allegations of sex crimes against children.<\/p>\n
Wills Point ISD released a statement on Monday regarding, Jimmy Hanks, who was arrested by the Rains County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Hanks is a former high school teacher in Wills Point and owns a local business, Bulldog Nutrition, in Edgewood. School officials said that the alleged behavior did not occur on the school\u2019s campus or property and that officers will continue investigating the allegations and take proper legal action.<\/p>\n
The sheriff\u2019s office said during the course of the investigation, probable cause was established, and an arrest warrant was issued. Hanks was later arrested and remains at the county jail for continuous sexual abuse of a young child. School officials said that the alleged behavior did not occur on the school\u2019s campus or property and that officers will continue investigating the allegations and take proper legal action.<\/p>\n
\u201cTransparency and student safety are of the utmost importance to this office,\u201d WPISD said \u201cWe will continue to strive to make all WPISD stakeholders in Wills Point proud.\u201d<\/p>\n
The district said if WPISD families have any questions to call the administration at 903-873-5100. However, due to the ongoing investigation, the sheriff\u2019s office will not release any other information at this time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WILLS POINT \u2014 According to a report from our news partner, KETK, an East Texas teacher has been arrested following allegations of sex crimes against children. Wills Point ISD released a statement on Monday regarding, Jimmy Hanks, who was arrested by the Rains County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Hanks is a former high school teacher in Wills … Continue reading Former East Texas teacher arrested for child sex crimes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1388413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/02\/bad-teach-e1738786371972.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 15:05:43","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\/2025\/02\/bad-teach-e1738786371972.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388408","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1388408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388421,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388408\/revisions\/1388421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1388413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1388408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1388408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1388408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}