{"id":213250,"date":"2026-04-28T22:38:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213250\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T22:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:38:46","slug":"manhattan-man-fails-to-appear-for-jury-trial-tuesday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/213250\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan man fails to appear for jury trial Tuesday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Manhattan man who was set to have the jury trial for his case in Riley County District Court begin Tuesday failed to appear for jury selection in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Tyrone Watson, 55, was arrested in October 2024 and is charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a box cutter, criminal threat and battery. He was released from jail in November 2024 on a $10,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>A complaint document filed with the court lists Rachel Marie Smith, Steven Duwaine Tillery and Johnnie Lee Tillery as the victims in Watson\u2019s alleged crimes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themercury.com\/news\/manhattan-man-fails-to-appear-for-jury-trial-tuesday-morning\/article_0dc2386e-43ce-4053-aff0-21fdf96b1d6f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">To view the full article visit theMercury.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Manhattan man who was set to have the jury trial for his case in Riley County District&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-213250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}