{"id":317213,"date":"2014-10-29T13:13:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T18:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=317213"},"modified":"2014-10-30T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:13:06","slug":"convicted-felon-sentenced-for-federal-firearms-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=317213","title":{"rendered":"Convicted Felon Sentenced for Federal Firearms Violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/10\/James-Matthew-Herring.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/10\/James-Matthew-Herring-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"James Matthew Herring\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-317239\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; A 27-year-old Grand Saline man has been sentenced to federal prison for federal firearms violations.James Matthew Herring pleaded guilty Aug. 6 to being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison Tuesday in Tyler by U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>According to information presented in court, on January 21, Herring was stopped by a sheriff\u2019s deputy because he matched the description of a burglary suspect. During the traffic stop, a revolver and a semi-automatic pistol were located on the ground near the car. Drug paraphernalia, cash, and methamphetamine were also found in a bag near the vehicle. Herring submitted to a search of the car, during which deputies located another revolver in the dash where the radio had been and a bag of ammunition in the trunk. Further investigation revealed Herring was a convicted felon having been found guilty of theft and evading arrest with a vehicle in Collin County. As a convicted felon, Herring is prohibited by federal law from owning or possessing firearms or ammunition. Herring was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 23. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; A 27-year-old Grand Saline man has been sentenced to federal prison for federal firearms violations.James Matthew Herring pleaded guilty Aug. 6 to being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison Tuesday in Tyler by U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis.<\/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-317213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 03:53:12","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\/317213","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=317213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317285,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317213\/revisions\/317285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}