{"id":529949,"date":"2016-08-30T03:31:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=529949"},"modified":"2016-08-31T03:05:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T08:05:29","slug":"hoax-call-results-in-five-hour-police-standoff-in-east-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=529949","title":{"rendered":"Hoax Call Results in Five Hour Police Standoff in East Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/police-lights-3-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/police-lights-3-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"police-lights-3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-529950\" \/><\/a>MOUNT PLEASANT (AP) &#8211; Authorities are investigating what might have been a hoax call in which someone reported being held hostage inside an East Texas home, resulting in a nearly five-hour police standoff. The Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune reports police received a 911 call at 1:44 p.m. Monday from a person claiming they were being held at gunpoint inside a home. Police surrounded the home and for about five hours tried to establish contact with someone inside the house. Officers finally entered the home at 6:39 p.m. and found the structure was empty. Mount Pleasant Police Chief Wayne Isbell says the alleged victim had given a consistent story and had even provided a name of the suspect threatening him. Isbell says detectives are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOUNT PLEASANT (AP) &#8211; Authorities are investigating what might have been a hoax call in which someone reported being held hostage inside an East Texas home, resulting in a nearly five-hour police standoff. The Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune reports police received a 911 call at 1:44 p.m. Monday from a person claiming they were being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=529949\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hoax Call Results in Five Hour Police Standoff in East Texas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":529950,"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-529949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 04:20:27","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\/529949","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=529949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529951,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529949\/revisions\/529951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/529950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}