{"id":937298,"date":"2020-11-14T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=937298"},"modified":"2020-11-15T16:47:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T22:47:13","slug":"one-arrested-in-tyler-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=937298","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in Tyler fire has long criminal record"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER — Tyler fire investigators have arrested an 89-year-old male in connection with a fire that broke out November 6 in a vacant structure on South Beckham near the Elm Street intersection. Kermit Francis Gabel, who has a decades-long criminal record, was arrested for 1st degree felony arson on Wednesday and booked into the Smith County Jail. The Tyler Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office continues to investigate a number of recent fires in vacant or abandoned structures, and will release information as new details are available, according to a press release. <\/p>\n

Firefighters were dispatched to the Beckham location at 11:09 p.m. on the 6th. The structure was fully involved upon arrival. Firefighters worked through the night on multiple incidents and cleared from this scene at 2:18 a.m. Currently, there is no information regarding a connection to any of the other incidents being investigated by the Tyler Fire Marshal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office. No injuries have reported.<\/p>\n

According to our news partner KETK, Gabel was also accused of multiple crimes in Ohio. He was known as a “serial cat burglar” and was dubbed the “Silver Burglar.” His crime sprees date back to the 40s and early 50s. He was busted in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1979, 1991, and 2007. In his numerous convictions, Gabel burglarized homes and stole jewelry, furs, and silver. Prosecutors say he then arranged for the items to be shipped to buyers and then had his earnings transferred into bank accounts under another name, Roy Post. One of his convictions in Texas in the 80s left him on parole for life. In fact, a judge wrote in a previous ruling that Gabel made a living by stealing other people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER — Tyler fire investigators have arrested an 89-year-old male in connection with a fire that broke out November 6 in a vacant structure on South Beckham near the Elm Street intersection. Kermit Francis Gabel, who has a decades-long criminal record, was arrested for 1st degree felony arson on Wednesday and booked into the Smith … Continue reading Man arrested in Tyler fire has long criminal record<\/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-937298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 23:44:28","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\/937298","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=937298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937329,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937298\/revisions\/937329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}