{"id":88622,"date":"2011-04-26T16:53:45","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T21:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=88622"},"modified":"2011-04-27T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T21:59:00","slug":"cases-mount-against-former-councilman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=88622","title":{"rendered":"Cases Mount against Former Councilman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/2011\/04\/26\/cases-mount-against-former-councilman\/aaron-pennington\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88628\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/04\/Aaron-Pennington-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Aaron Pennington\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-88628\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGRAPELAND \u2013 Troubles are growing for a former Grapeland city councilman.  Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott\u2019s Cyber Crimes Unit arrested Aaron Pennington, 30, after allegedly discovering images of the sexual assault of a child. The Cyber Crimes Unit\u2019s investigation of Pennington stemmed from a referral by the Grapeland Police Department; Houston County District Attorney Donna Kaspar will prosecute the cases in court.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators from the Cyber Crimes Unit initially arrested Pennington on April 5 for possession and promotion of child pornography. That investigation led to additional charges when, on April 19, Pennington was arrested for sexual assault of a child. Two days later, on April 21, he was arrested for the third time after the Cyber Crimes Unit allegedly discovered images of the sexual assault of a child. In total, the defendant has been arrested for seven separate felony crimes against children.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving a tip from the Grapeland Police Department, the Cyber Crimes Unit executed a search warrant and examined Pennington\u2019s computer, where they discovered multiple illicit images of child pornography. Later, Cyber Crimes Unit investigators reviewed allegations that Pennington had sexually assaulted children in the Houston County area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAPELAND \u2013 Troubles are growing for a former Grapeland city councilman. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott\u2019s Cyber Crimes Unit arrested Aaron Pennington, 30, after allegedly discovering images of the sexual assault of a child. The Cyber Crimes Unit\u2019s investigation of Pennington stemmed from a referral by the Grapeland Police Department; Houston County District Attorney Donna &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=88622\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cases Mount against Former Councilman<\/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-88622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 21:54:08","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\/88622","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=88622"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88953,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88622\/revisions\/88953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}