{"id":1510703,"date":"2026-05-28T03:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1510703"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:23:00","slug":"east-texas-junior-high-coach-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1510703","title":{"rendered":"East Texas junior high coach accused of sexually assaulting woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNT PLEASANT, Texas (KETK) \u2014 A former East Texas coach has been arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in February after driving her home.<\/p>\n<p>According to an arrest affidavit from Titus County, a woman went to the Mount Pleasant Police Department late on Feb. 15 asking to speak privately with an officer. She reported that on Feb. 13 she had been drinking at an unknown residence and that Antione Javon Ross had been asked to take her home.<\/p>\n<p>At about 12:29 a.m., the woman\u2019s mother received a call from a friend saying the woman had been crying and claimed Ross had sexually assaulted her.<br \/>\nHopkins County man arrested after allegedly stealing mower, power tools<\/p>\n<p>The victim told police she does not remember going home and only recalls waking up and telling Ross to \u201cget off her\u201d before he left. She went to the emergency room for a SANE exam before speaking with officers.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives later went to Mount Pleasant ISD and confirmed Ross was a junior high coach. When they approached him in the parking lot, Ross reportedly said, \u201cI kinda know what you\u2019re talking about,\u201d according to the affidavit. He told detectives he had already spoken with his lawyer and would not answer questions.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators obtained the woman\u2019s SANE kit and related paperwork, which they said provided enough probable cause to charge Ross with sexual assault. Ross was arrested on April 29 and released in early May on a $100,000 bond. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNT PLEASANT, Texas (KETK) \u2014 A former East Texas coach has been arrested after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in February after driving her home. According to an arrest affidavit from Titus County, a woman went to the Mount Pleasant Police Department late on Feb. 15 asking to speak privately with an officer. She reported &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1510703\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas junior high coach accused of sexually assaulting woman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2851],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news-archive"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 02:43:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510703","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=1510703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511000,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510703\/revisions\/1511000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}