{"id":416739,"date":"2015-11-10T09:44:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=416739"},"modified":"2015-11-11T08:41:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:41:08","slug":"former-inmate-settled-suit-with-gregg-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=416739","title":{"rendered":"Former Inmate Settles Suit with Gregg County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/11\/inmate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/11\/inmate-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"inmate\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-416740\" \/><\/a>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; Claims by a former Gregg County Jail inmate that his Islamic faith was violated have been settled locally. According to the Longview News-Journal and KETK, a federal judge will have to sign off on any pending deal before it is official. Mohammad Moosa Yahya sued Gregg County, Sheriff Maxey Cerliano, six of his deputies and two federal law enforcement agencies in March. He claimed in the federal lawsuit that he was denied meal accommodations during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which that year coincided with his stint in the Gregg County Jail in the summer of 2014.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yahya, 38 at the time, was held for federal agents on a fraud charge for which he was sentenced to 24 months in prison last spring. He had been accused of soliciting investors in a car-buying business, called Tyler Automax, then depositing the money into a personal bank account from which he freely spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; Claims by a former Gregg County Jail inmate that his Islamic faith was violated have been settled locally. According to the Longview News-Journal and KETK, a federal judge will have to sign off on any pending deal before it is official. Mohammad Moosa Yahya sued Gregg County, Sheriff Maxey Cerliano, six of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=416739\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Inmate Settles Suit with Gregg County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":416740,"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-416739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 15:12:40","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\/416739","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=416739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416755,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416739\/revisions\/416755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/416740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}