LUFKIN — A prank call has resulted in a prison term for an Angelina County man. James Tyler Markle, 20, of Diboll, was handed a five year prison sentence Tuesday. State District Judge Barry Bryan said he may consider granting shock probation.<\/p>\n
In June of last year, Markle admitted calling a Lufkin McDonald\u2019s Restaurant and telling the employee to \u201ctest the fire suppression system.\u201d He also told them to spray the fire extinguisher on a kitchen grill and break out windows. The employee did as was instructed. It cost $5,000 to clean up the damage. Besides the prison term Markle was also ordered to pay restitution to the restaurant and the Lufkin Fire Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LUFKIN — A prank call has resulted in a prison term for an Angelina County man. James Tyler Markle, 20, of Diboll, was handed a five year prison sentence Tuesday. State District Judge Barry Bryan said he may consider granting shock probation. In June of last year, Markle admitted calling a Lufkin McDonald\u2019s Restaurant and … Continue reading Jail Term for Prank Phone Call<\/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-55857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 00:25:21","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\/55857","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=55857"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56124,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55857\/revisions\/56124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}