{"id":295216,"date":"2014-03-19T10:41:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T15:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=295216"},"modified":"2014-03-20T10:49:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T15:49:54","slug":"kansas-man-charged-with-having-sex-with-tyler-teen-multiple-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=295216","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Man Charged with Having Sex with East Texas Teen Multiple Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=295217\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-295217\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/03\/matthewhowellmug2-150x150.png\" alt=\"matthewhowellmug2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-295217\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 A Kansas man is facing sexual assault charges in Tyler after officials say he had sex with an underage girl multiple times.  According to the Smith County District Attorney&#8217;s Office, Matthew Howell, 26, contacted a 16-year-old East Texas girl via Internet and came all the way to Tyler to meet her. Howell reportedly gave the teen presents along with allegedly engaging in the sex crimes.   KETK reports Howell faced computer crime charges in Kansas for alleged online crimes with the teenager as well.  The suspect was indicted on October 10, 2013, and jury selection for his trial began Tuesday in the Smith County 7th Judicial Distinct Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 A Kansas man is facing sexual assault charges in Tyler after officials say he had sex with an underage girl multiple times. According to the Smith County District Attorney&#8217;s Office, Matthew Howell, 26, contacted a 16-year-old East Texas girl via Internet and came all the way to Tyler to meet her. Howell reportedly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=295216\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kansas Man Charged with Having Sex with East Texas Teen Multiple Times<\/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-295216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 13:49:46","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\/295216","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=295216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295249,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295216\/revisions\/295249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}