{"id":1504417,"date":"2026-05-06T13:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1504417"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:38:24","slug":"texas-man-is-released-from-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1504417","title":{"rendered":"Texas man is released from Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/cadebat-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1504419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/cadebat-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/cadebat.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>HALLSVILLE &#8211;  An East Texas family\u2019s long wait for justice ended this week, more than a year after their son was jailed in Mexico for mistakenly crossing the border with a firearm. Hallsville native Caden Hawkins was returning from work in Arizona last March when GPS detours routed him toward a border checkpoint, according to our news partner KETK, his family said Mexican guards instructed him to pass through  toward the United States. While border guards checked his truck at the security checkpoint, Caden told officials that he had a pistol inside his truck and was immediately placed under arrest. <\/p>\n<p>Rep.Jay Dean, who had been working on Hawkins\u2019 case, announced on Tuesday that he had returned to Texas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALLSVILLE &#8211; An East Texas family\u2019s long wait for justice ended this week, more than a year after their son was jailed in Mexico for mistakenly crossing the border with a firearm. Hallsville native Caden Hawkins was returning from work in Arizona last March when GPS detours routed him toward a border checkpoint, according to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1504417\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas man is released from Mexico<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1504559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/cadebat-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504417","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 08:26:01","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\/05\/cadebat-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504417","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=1504417"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504643,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504417\/revisions\/1504643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1504559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}