{"id":1467248,"date":"2025-12-26T22:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T04:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1467248"},"modified":"2025-12-27T12:58:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T18:58:28","slug":"community-search-scheduled-for-missing-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1467248","title":{"rendered":"Community search scheduled for missing man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1465846\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/blount-e1766081388714-175x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/blount-e1766081388714-175x200.webp 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/blount-e1766081388714-306x350.webp 306w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/blount-e1766081388714.webp 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>RUSK \u2014 A search is scheduled for Saturday in Rusk as volunteers gather to look for missing man James David Blount, who was last seen on Dec. 2. According to our news partner KETK, Saturday\u2019s search is scheduled to begin at 7:30 a.m. at Truckerz, located on West Sixth Street in Rusk. Participants will search wooded areas on foot. Volunteers are encouraged to wear sturdy shoes or boots, brightly colored clothing and safety vests if available. ATVs, four-wheelers and vehicles capable of traveling dirt roads are also encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>Blount is described as a white man who is 5 feet, 9 inches tall, weighs about 200 pounds and has brown hair and blue eyes. Rusk police said he was last seen on Tuesday, Dec. 2. His vehicle was later found along Highway 84 near the Neches River on Dec. 6.<\/p>\n<p>The Cherokee County Sheriff\u2019s Office said a $25,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to Blount\u2019s location. Law enforcement agencies, along with Heal Corp., previously searched the Neches River and surrounding areas however, as of Dec. 21, those efforts had not located Blount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSK \u2014 A search is scheduled for Saturday in Rusk as volunteers gather to look for missing man James David Blount, who was last seen on Dec. 2. According to our news partner KETK, Saturday\u2019s search is scheduled to begin at 7:30 a.m. at Truckerz, located on West Sixth Street in Rusk. Participants will search &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1467248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Community search scheduled for missing man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1467283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/blount-e1766081388714-175x200.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 08:29:06","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\/12\/blount-e1766081388714-175x200.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467248","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=1467248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467284,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467248\/revisions\/1467284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1467283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1467248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1467248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1467248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}