{"id":67339,"date":"2011-01-26T07:09:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T13:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=67339"},"modified":"2011-01-28T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T17:24:12","slug":"man-on-trial-for-kidnapping-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=67339","title":{"rendered":"Man Gets Life for Aggravated Kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=67629\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67629\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/01\/Elasko-Thomas-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Elasko Thomas\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-67629\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER \u2014 A Tyler man found guilty of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend and sexually assaulting her is sentenced to life in prison. Elasko Thomas, 37, was sentenced Thursday morning in a Smith County courtroom. The victim reportedly came home to tell Thomas to leave her and her parents alone. That\u2019s when Thomas reportedly kidnapped her, beat her and sexually assaulted her twice. In testimony Tuesday, the victim\u2019s parents said Thomas told them \u201csomething bad\u201d was going to happen when he found their daughter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 A Tyler man found guilty of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend and sexually assaulting her is sentenced to life in prison. Elasko Thomas, 37, was sentenced Thursday morning in a Smith County courtroom. The victim reportedly came home to tell Thomas to leave her and her parents alone. That\u2019s when Thomas reportedly kidnapped her, beat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=67339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man Gets Life for Aggravated Kidnapping<\/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-67339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 13:43:48","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\/67339","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=67339"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67975,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67339\/revisions\/67975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}