{"id":585973,"date":"2017-02-09T08:36:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T14:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=585973"},"modified":"2017-02-09T12:58:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:58:05","slug":"police-warn-public-of-convicted-rapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=585973","title":{"rendered":"Police Warn Public of Convicted Rapist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/02\/david1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/02\/david1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-585977\" \/><\/a>LUFKIN &#8212; Lufkin Police are warning residents to be aware of a sex offender who is under suspicion. David Williams Adams, 65, was found guilty and convicted of a &#8220;stranger rape&#8221; of a  25-year-old woman in 1985. According to KETK, a criminal trespass warning was issued for Adams at all Brookshire Brothers locations after store employees received a complaint about Adams watching and following a woman. Police questioned Adams about the incident but he denied any wrongdoing. He also told officers his conviction of rape involved him following a woman in a Houston grocery store parking lot, then raping her at knife point in a nearby wooded area.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153His initial offense was extremely violent and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re very concerned that his activity now in Lufkin is a repeat of the original activity,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Chief Gerald Williamson said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our intention is to protect the public and do everything we can to head off any potential offenses by this individual.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>The man is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall, with brown hair and green eyes. He is likely to be driving a white 1993 Chevrolet pickup with primer showing paint in multiple spots. The vehicle also has a headache rack covering the back window and a pipe bumper on the rear. The truck&#8217;s license plate number is HRT-8536.<\/p>\n<p>Police can be reached at 936-633-0356.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUFKIN &#8212; Lufkin Police are warning residents to be aware of a sex offender who is under suspicion. David Williams Adams, 65, was found guilty and convicted of a &#8220;stranger rape&#8221; of a 25-year-old woman in 1985. According to KETK, a criminal trespass warning was issued for Adams at all Brookshire Brothers locations after store &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=585973\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Police Warn Public of Convicted Rapist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":585977,"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-585973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 14:06:48","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\/585973","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=585973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585978,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585973\/revisions\/585978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/585977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}