{"id":808698,"date":"2019-08-08T07:23:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T12:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=808698"},"modified":"2019-08-09T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T13:55:00","slug":"smith-county-man-arrested-for-terroristic-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=808698","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Man Arrested for Terroristic Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/08\/McCleskey-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-808700\" \/>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; A Troup man has been jailed for repeatedly making a terrorist threat. Sheriff Larry Smith says Gregory McCleskey, 62, made several calls to a local State Farm Insurance office and the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s call center. McCleskey stated he had an AK-47 and the insurance company needed to pay his claim. He&#8217;s also accused of making threats to the local insurance company owner. McCleskey was arrested around 5:00 Wednesday evening after initially refusing to leave his Troup home. He&#8217;s charged with making a terroristic threat, placing the public in fear of serious bodily injury, a 3rd degree felony. McCleskey remains in the Smith County Jail under a $100,000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SMITH COUNTY &#8212; A Troup man has been jailed for repeatedly making a terrorist threat. Sheriff Larry Smith says Gregory McCleskey, 62, made several calls to a local State Farm Insurance office and the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s call center. McCleskey stated he had an AK-47 and the insurance company needed to pay his claim. He&#8217;s also accused &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=808698\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Man Arrested for Terroristic Threat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":808700,"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-808698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 14:13:56","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\/808698","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=808698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808704,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808698\/revisions\/808704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/808700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}