{"id":701521,"date":"2018-03-23T09:01:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T14:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=701521"},"modified":"2018-03-24T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T22:11:18","slug":"enticing-charge-dropped-against-former-east-texas-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=701521","title":{"rendered":"Enticing Charge Dropped against Former East Texas Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/03\/RC-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-701522\" \/>TYLER &#8212;  An enticing a child charge against a former East Texas high school volleyball coach has been dismissed due to &#8220;insufficient evidence.&#8221; According to records obtained by KETK, the Smith County District Attorney&#8217;s Office dismissed the charge against ex-Brook Hill volleyball coach Ricky Clements, 64, of Flint, on Friday, March 16. Clements, aka &#8220;Papa Ricky,&#8221; was arrested by the Bullard Police Department on October 21, 2015, after they said he was sending inappropriate text messages to a 16-year-old boarding school student. The DA&#8217;s office said due to the &#8220;unique facts&#8221; of this particular case, they did not have sufficient evidence to prove the element of &#8220;intent to interfere with lawful custody&#8221; as required by the statue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; An enticing a child charge against a former East Texas high school volleyball coach has been dismissed due to &#8220;insufficient evidence.&#8221; According to records obtained by KETK, the Smith County District Attorney&#8217;s Office dismissed the charge against ex-Brook Hill volleyball coach Ricky Clements, 64, of Flint, on Friday, March 16. Clements, aka &#8220;Papa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=701521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enticing Charge Dropped against Former East Texas Coach<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":701522,"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-701521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 18:26:50","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\/701521","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701523,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701521\/revisions\/701523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/701522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}