{"id":1510536,"date":"2026-05-27T13:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1510536"},"modified":"2026-05-29T22:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T03:53:45","slug":"911-text-leads-to-sexual-assault-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1510536","title":{"rendered":"Text leads to sexual assault arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1510538\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/heath-butler-200x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8211; Tyler police officers arrested a man over the weekend for allegedly bringing two women into a house he did not own and sexually abusing them. A 911 text was sent by the women, leading to authorities finding and assisting the victims. An arrest affidavit states that an officer was sent to a Walton Road residence after receiving a 911 text that said &#8220;help.&#8221; Two women were &#8220;completely naked and appeared to be afraid,&#8221; according to what the officers saw through a window. When the officer asked the women if they were alright, they shook their heads and indicated a room where suspect Heath Butler was. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Butler allegedly threatened to &#8220;gun them down&#8221; if the women disobeyed his orders to undress, saying, &#8220;You are not going anywhere.&#8221; Then, with one hand in a bag where he claimed the pistol was, Butler sexually assaulted the women, they told the officer. According to one victim, she was &#8220;in fear for her life, and believed Butler had a firearm and would harm her if she did not comply with what he said.&#8221; Butler was charged with one count of burglary of a habitation with intent to commit sexual offense and two counts of aggravated sexual assault. He was brought to the Smith County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8211; Tyler police officers arrested a man over the weekend for allegedly bringing two women into a house he did not own and sexually abusing them. A 911 text was sent by the women, leading to authorities finding and assisting the victims. An arrest affidavit states that an officer was sent to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1510536\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Text leads to sexual assault arrest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3908,"featured_media":1510617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/05\/heath-butler-200x200.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 02:44:27","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\/heath-butler-200x200.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510536","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\/3908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1510536"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511274,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510536\/revisions\/1511274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1510617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}