{"id":1460446,"date":"2025-11-24T10:02:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T16:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1460446"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:45:54","slug":"state-rep-jay-dean-calls-for-release-of-east-texan-being-held-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1460446","title":{"rendered":"State Rep. calls for release of East Texan"},"content":{"rendered":"

HALLSVILLE \u2013 \"\"East Texas State Rep. Jay Dean is calling for the release of Caden Hawkins, a 22-year-old from Hallsville, that Dean said is being held as a cash asset in Mexico.
\nAccording to Dean, Hawkins was arrested as he was heading home from working on an oil field when his GPS led him across the border. Hawkins had a legally registered firearm in the vehicle when he was arrested. Dean told our news partners at KETK that he spoke with Hawkins\u2019 family on Sunday. Hawkins has reportedly been held in Juarez, Mexico for the past 9 months. His family has been trying to secure his release for months and has had to pay thousands of dollars to try and help Caden.<\/p>\n

\u201cHallsville native, 22 year old Caden Hawkins is being held as a cash asset for a corrupt federal judge in Juarez, Mexico. His family has been extorted for months, forced to pay over $1000 a week so Caden can have hot water, toilet paper and semi-protection from violent inmates,\u201d Dean said on Sunday. \u201cThis is absolutely unacceptable and we need to ban together and force our federal government to BRING CADEN HOME.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dean asked the community to contact the following numbers in order to help bring Caden home before Christmas:<\/p>\n

Department of State\u2019s Overseas Citizens Services: 202-647-4000
\n Senator John Cornyn: 202-224-2934
\n Senator Ted Cruz: 202-224-5922
\n Congressman Nathaniel Moran: 202-225-3035
\n Attorney General Ken Paxton: 512-463-2100
\n Governor Greg Abbott: 512-463-2000<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is our world. We want him home with us. I understand that there are alot of people that don\u2019t understand this or have negative things to say and you are entitled to feel how you want to! I will tell you this no matter how you feel, I can promise you that our family doesn\u2019t want anything except our son home,\u201d Caden\u2019s mother April Thomas said. \u201cCaden is the type of person that would help anyone out and he has done it many times. He is not a criminal and doesn\u2019t even have a criminal history! He is a good person and trusted his GPS. This has been our living hell for 9 months, 9 months too long. We are only asking for his story to be shared and for calls to be made! Please help us bring our boy home!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HALLSVILLE \u2013 East Texas State Rep. Jay Dean is calling for the release of Caden Hawkins, a 22-year-old from Hallsville, that Dean said is being held as a cash asset in Mexico. According to Dean, Hawkins was arrested as he was heading home from working on an oil field when his GPS led him across … Continue reading State Rep. calls for release of East Texan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1460587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/jay-dean-e1744923928172-201x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 09:51:58","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\/04\/jay-dean-e1744923928172-201x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460446","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1460446"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460881,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460446\/revisions\/1460881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1460587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1460446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1460446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1460446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}