{"id":168828,"date":"2012-03-01T17:54:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T23:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=168828"},"modified":"2012-03-02T16:49:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T22:49:11","slug":"smith-county-man-sentenced-for-federal-firearms-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=168828","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Man Sentenced for Federal Firearms Violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=168852\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-168852\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/03\/Martrice-Smith-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Martrice Smith\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-168852\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 A Tyler man will be going to prison for federal firearms violations. Martrice Smith, 38, pleaded guilty last October to being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Michael H. Schneider.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors say Smith admitted that on October 20, 2010, he was in possession of a shotgun. Further investigation revealed Smith was a convicted felon, having previously been found guilty of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Texas in 2005; possession of a controlled substance in Smith County in 2005; possession of a controlled substance in Smith County in 2004; and burglary of a vehicle in Smith County in 1997. As a convicted felon, Smith is prohibited by federal law from owning or possessing firearms or ammunition.  Smith was indicted by a federal grand jury last September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 A Tyler man will be going to prison for federal firearms violations. Martrice Smith, 38, pleaded guilty last October to being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Michael H. Schneider. Federal prosecutors say Smith admitted that on October &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=168828\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Man Sentenced for Federal Firearms Violation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 10:47:56","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\/168828","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168828"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169128,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168828\/revisions\/169128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}