{"id":250177,"date":"2013-04-05T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=250177"},"modified":"2013-04-06T07:47:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T12:47:15","slug":"escaped-texas-inmates-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=250177","title":{"rendered":"Official: Jail Guard Distracted during Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/04\/Brian-Allen-Tucker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/04\/Brian-Allen-Tucker-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Allen Tucker\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-249674\" \/><\/a>SULPHUR SPRINGS (AP) &#8211; A sheriff&#8217;s office spokesman in East Texas says two inmates who escaped for two days took advantage of a guard distracted by several other duties.    Capital murder suspect Brian Allen Tucker (pictured) and John Marlin King &#8211; who recently pleaded guilty to a drug possession charge &#8211; were found Thursday in a barn in Cooper, a town about 20 miles away from the Hopkins County Jail in Sulphur Springs. While the two men face additional felony charges, Hopkins County officials say they&#8217;re studying how to improve security and prevent another escape.     Sgt. Brad Cummings of the Hopkins County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says part of the problem was Tucker and King had been in the jail several times and possibly knew how to successfully escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SULPHUR SPRINGS (AP) &#8211; A sheriff&#8217;s office spokesman in East Texas says two inmates who escaped for two days took advantage of a guard distracted by several other duties. Capital murder suspect Brian Allen Tucker (pictured) and John Marlin King &#8211; who recently pleaded guilty to a drug possession charge &#8211; were found Thursday in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=250177\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Official: Jail Guard Distracted during Escape<\/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-250177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 10:57:44","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\/250177","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=250177"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250360,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250177\/revisions\/250360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}