{"id":977149,"date":"2021-03-04T15:21:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T21:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=977149"},"modified":"2021-03-05T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T22:17:50","slug":"former-lindale-coach-accepts-deal-on-improper-relationship-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=977149","title":{"rendered":"Former Lindale coach accepts deal on improper relationship charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-977159\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/Coach-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TYLER &#8212; A former Lindale coach was sentenced to 10 years of probation after pleading guilty to being in an improper relationship with a high school student. According to our news partner KETK, Blake Lawson Maddox, 24, of Tyler, entered the guilty plea Thursday. Maddox accepted the offer in the 7th District Court. He was arrested in February of last year and indicted last September. According to evidence in the case, Maddox touched the victim inappropriately and sent explicit photos to her through social media. The victim&#8217;s family agreed to the probation punishment for Maddox.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Maddox\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lawyers confirmed their client has accepted a plea deal, but it not been formally approved by 7th District Court Judge Kerry Russell. That hearing will be will be set for a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A former Lindale coach was sentenced to 10 years of probation after pleading guilty to being in an improper relationship with a high school student. According to our news partner KETK, Blake Lawson Maddox, 24, of Tyler, entered the guilty plea Thursday. Maddox accepted the offer in the 7th District Court. He was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=977149\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Lindale coach accepts deal on improper relationship charge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":977166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/Coach-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Former Lindale coach accepts deal on improper relationship charge","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 07:45:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/03\/Coach-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Former Lindale coach accepts deal on improper relationship charge","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977149","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=977149"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977425,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977149\/revisions\/977425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/977166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}