{"id":711046,"date":"2018-04-27T20:39:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T01:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=711046"},"modified":"2018-04-29T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T20:05:15","slug":"a-lengthy-prison-term-for-a-tyler-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=711046","title":{"rendered":"A Lengthy Prison Term for a Tyler Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/04\/Dekenndrick-Lekeith-Ross.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/04\/Dekenndrick-Lekeith-Ross-200x185.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"185\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-705107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/04\/Dekenndrick-Lekeith-Ross-200x185.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/04\/Dekenndrick-Lekeith-Ross.jpeg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; State District Judge Kerry Russell on Friday sentenced Dekenndrick Lekeith Ross, 41, to life in prison. He was found guilty earlier this month of prostitution and human trafficking.  Last June, Ross and Crystal Leshae Lilly, 26, also of Tyler, were arrested following a Department of Public Safety investigation of a human trafficking organization in the Tyler area. Lilly&#8217;s trial date has not yet been set. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; State District Judge Kerry Russell on Friday sentenced Dekenndrick Lekeith Ross, 41, to life in prison. He was found guilty earlier this month of prostitution and human trafficking. Last June, Ross and Crystal Leshae Lilly, 26, also of Tyler, were arrested following a Department of Public Safety investigation of a human trafficking organization &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=711046\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Lengthy Prison Term for a Tyler Man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":705107,"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-711046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 20:44:22","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\/711046","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=711046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711187,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711046\/revisions\/711187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/705107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}