{"id":924591,"date":"2020-09-22T15:59:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T20:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=924591"},"modified":"2020-09-23T15:59:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T20:59:04","slug":"tyler-man-allegedly-robs-man-and-threatens-to-kill-his-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=924591","title":{"rendered":"Tyler man allegedly robs man and threatens to kill his family"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER — According to an arrest warrant obtained by our news partner KETK News, a Tyler man was arrested after allegedly robbing a man at gunpoint and threatening to kill his family. Richard Vega, 28, of Tyler is accused of coming to a man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house September 7 and demanding money he said he was owed, and that he needed drugs. The victim told police while he owed Vega $3,200, he does not sell drugs. Vega left and allegedly returned with three other men. One had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153an \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAR\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 style rifle\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the other two possessed handguns. They then started taking items out of the victim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s garage:<\/p>\n

SONY Audio System (valued at $760)
\n iPhone X+ (valued at $1,600)
\n Pressure washer (valued at $1,200)<\/p>\n

After stealing the items, the men fired their guns into the air and began banging on the doors and windows of the home, according to the warrant. When deputies responded to the scene, Vega texted the victim again in Spanish threatening to kill him and his family while demanding the money again. Over the next week, police documented several times where Vega, or friends of his, harassed the victim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family to pressure them in dropping the charges. Some even posted sensitive financial information to Facebook about the victim.<\/p>\n

The warrant states that Vega continued to harass the victim to drop the charges or he \u00e2\u20ac\u0153will harm his family.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Many of the victim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friends and family have been inside the home when the calls come in and have terrified his children, police say. Vega is currently in the Smith County Jail on a $250,000 bond and is charged with aggravated robbery. If convicted, he faces life in prison.<\/p>\n

Vega was arrested in June 2019 for an alleged DWI, but jail records show that the District Attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office declined to prosecute the case. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER — According to an arrest warrant obtained by our news partner KETK News, a Tyler man was arrested after allegedly robbing a man at gunpoint and threatening to kill his family. Richard Vega, 28, of Tyler is accused of coming to a man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house September 7 and demanding money he said he was owed, … Continue reading Tyler man allegedly robs man and threatens to kill his family<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"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-924591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 22:11:59","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\/924591","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=924591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924597,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924591\/revisions\/924597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}