{"id":145841,"date":"2011-12-01T08:32:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T14:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=145841"},"modified":"2011-12-02T09:54:26","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T15:54:26","slug":"longview-man-aquitted-on-kidnapping-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=145841","title":{"rendered":"Longview Man Aquitted on Kidnapping Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=145857\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-145857\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/12\/sheph-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sheph\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-145857\" \/><\/a>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; A Gregg County jury acquitted a Longview man Wednesday of aggravated kidnapping charges. Jurors deliberated nearly six hours before finding 50-year-old Anthony Marquis Shepherd not guilty of the first degree charge, which carried between 5 and 99 years or life in prison upon conviction. Prosecutors said Shepherd held a woman against her will in a South Longview home and beat her with the intent of sexually assaulting her on June 26, 2010. Shepherd was painting the interior of a home in the 500 block of Aden Drive and had gotten permission from the homeowner to allow the woman to help him with the job, Gregg County Assistant District Attorney Chris Botto said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, identified as Tonya Wilson, said Shepherd burned her toes, injured her arm and slammed her against the floor. She broke a glass and caught the attention of a passer-by for help, prosecutors said. A witness for the defense, Richard Pendarvis, said Wilson infliced the injury to her hand herself, defense attorney Kathy Colvin said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the verdict, Shepherd remained jailed Wednesday without bond, because a grand jury indicted him earlier this year on a May 21 offense of forgery of a financial instrument. A hearing in the case has not been set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; A Gregg County jury acquitted a Longview man Wednesday of aggravated kidnapping charges. Jurors deliberated nearly six hours before finding 50-year-old Anthony Marquis Shepherd not guilty of the first degree charge, which carried between 5 and 99 years or life in prison upon conviction. Prosecutors said Shepherd held a woman against her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=145841\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Man Aquitted on Kidnapping Charges<\/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-145841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 22:10:44","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\/145841","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=145841"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146172,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145841\/revisions\/146172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}