{"id":544491,"date":"2016-10-07T14:58:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T19:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=544491"},"modified":"2016-10-09T07:16:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T12:16:14","slug":"longview-man-draws-prison-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=544491","title":{"rendered":"Longview Man Draws Prison Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/10\/Danny-Ray-Copeland.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/10\/Danny-Ray-Copeland-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"danny-ray-copeland\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-544509\" \/><\/a>GILMER &#8211; A Longview man is going to prison for aggravated sexual assault of a child. Danny Ray Copeland, 42, pled guilty is state district court in Upshur County. He received a 40 year prison sentenced for aggravated sexual assault of a child, 10 years in prison for indecency with a child and  10 years in prison on a second charge of indecency with a child.  The three sentences will run concurrently. Copeland is also under indictment in Gregg County, and as part of Friday&#8217;s plea agreement, he will plead guilty to Sexual Performance of a Child, a second degree felony, and receive a 20 year prison sentence to run concurrently with his Upshur County sentences. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Copeland will not become eligible for parole until he completes one-half of his prison sentence.  Upon release, he will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GILMER &#8211; A Longview man is going to prison for aggravated sexual assault of a child. Danny Ray Copeland, 42, pled guilty is state district court in Upshur County. He received a 40 year prison sentenced for aggravated sexual assault of a child, 10 years in prison for indecency with a child and 10 years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=544491\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Man Draws Prison Term<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":544509,"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-544491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 17:33:03","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\/544491","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=544491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544510,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544491\/revisions\/544510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/544509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}