{"id":63381,"date":"2011-01-07T03:02:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T09:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=63381"},"modified":"2011-01-08T05:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T11:52:12","slug":"guilty-plea-to-a-firearms-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=63381","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Plea to a Firearms Violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=63382\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-63382\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/01\/Federal-Courthouse-A.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Federal Courthouse-A\" width=\"111\" height=\"88\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-63382\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER \u2013 A Gilmer man has pleaded guilty to federal firearms violations. James Franklin Bracey, 35,  pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Everingham IV. Bracey faces up to 10 years in federal prison at sentencing.  A sentencing date has not been set.<\/p>\n<p>According to federal prosecutors, on December 7, 2009, Bracey was found to be in possession of a rifle with an attached scope in Upshur County, which he was using to conduct surveillance on a neighboring Wal-Mart store and then steal items from the store.  Further investigation revealed Bracey was a convicted felon, having previously been found guilty of burglary.  Convicted felons are prohibited by federal law from owning or possessing firearms or ammunition. He was indicted by a federal grand jury on July 14, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 A Gilmer man has pleaded guilty to federal firearms violations. James Franklin Bracey, 35, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Everingham IV. Bracey faces up to 10 years in federal prison at sentencing. A sentencing date has not been set. According to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=63381\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guilty Plea to a Firearms Violation<\/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-63381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 01:41:17","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\/63381","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=63381"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63538,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63381\/revisions\/63538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}