{"id":1487555,"date":"2026-03-12T03:20:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1487555"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:23:38","slug":"sheriffs-office-looking-for-runaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1487555","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff\u2019s office looking for runaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1487556\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/2026-03-12_032016-201x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/2026-03-12_032016-201x200.jpg 201w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/2026-03-12_032016.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><strong>UPDATE: Found safe and unharmed, per the Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Thursday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TYLER &#8211; A Smith County teenager has not been seen since March 1, and her family believes she has run away. According to the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Kalyiah Smith, 16, is 5 feet, 4 inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, and has brown hair and eyes. She has been diagnosed with ADHD and is supposed to take medications for that, they said, but other than that, she has no medical or mental issues.<\/p>\n<p>Kalyiah has ties to the immediate Tyler area, and the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office reminds residents that anyone who is harboring a minor and is criminally negligent about whether the child is younger than 18 years of age and has voluntarily left home without the consent of a parent or guardian, can be charged with Harboring a Runaway, a Class A Misdemeanor.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information as to the whereabouts of Kalyiah Smith, please call the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office at (903) 566-6600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Found safe and unharmed, per the Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Thursday morning. TYLER &#8211; A Smith County teenager has not been seen since March 1, and her family believes she has run away. According to the Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Kalyiah Smith, 16, is 5 feet, 4 inches tall, weighs 130 pounds, and has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1487555\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sheriff\u2019s office looking for runaway<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1487584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/2026-03-12_032016-201x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 20:55:31","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\/2026\/03\/2026-03-12_032016-201x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487555","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=1487555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487586,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487555\/revisions\/1487586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1487555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1487555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1487555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}