{"id":1512185,"date":"2026-06-03T11:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512185"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:32:57","slug":"man-accused-of-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512185","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/tony-e1780503789963-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1512186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/tony-e1780503789963-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/tony-e1780503789963-678x678.jpg 678w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/tony-e1780503789963.jpg 755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8211; A man was taken into custody in Smith County on Tuesday on suspicion of sexually abusing a fifteen-year-old girl. Tony Rincker, 60, was placed in the Smith County Jail on a $500,000 bond after being accused of sexual assault of a minor. An arrest affidavit states that a student claimed to have seen a video on the teen&#8217;s Snapchat account showing the alleged victim being sexually assaulted. What looked to be a child&#8217;s bedroom was shown in the video. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to arrest documents, a detective from the Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Office discovered a conversation between the child and Rincker, a neighbor, when they received the child&#8217;s phone in May. Investigators were informed by a family member that they witnessed the child sending explicit photos and Rincker sending pictures of drugs to the child. The child&#8217;s phone number was determined to be Rincker&#8217;s. The affidavit stated that there were sexually explicit messages on the phone and that the conversation acknowledged that something sexual had occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8211; A man was taken into custody in Smith County on Tuesday on suspicion of sexually abusing a fifteen-year-old girl. Tony Rincker, 60, was placed in the Smith County Jail on a $500,000 bond after being accused of sexual assault of a minor. An arrest affidavit states that a student claimed to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512185\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man accused of sexual assault<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3908,"featured_media":1512186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 21:14:18","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\/1512185","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=1512185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512188,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512185\/revisions\/1512188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}