{"id":321262,"date":"2026-06-03T18:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/321262\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T18:13:16","slug":"east-texas-man-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-15-year-old-girl-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/321262\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas man accused of sexually assaulting 15-year-old girl arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl was arrested in Smith County Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tony Rincker, 60, is charged with sexual assault of a child, and he was booked into the Smith County Jail on a $500,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to an arrest affidavit, a student reported seeing a video of the reported victim being sexually assaulted on the teen&#8217;s Snapchat account. The video depicted what appeared to be a child&#8217;s bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The document said that when a Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Office detective received the child&#8217;s phone in May, they found a conversation between the child and Rincker, who lived nearby. A family member reported to investigators that they saw Rincker sent photos of drugs to the child and the child sent explicit photos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The phone number that the child was communicating with was identified as Rincker&#8217;s. The messages found in the phone were sexually explicit and the conversation also acknowledged something sexual happened, the affidavit read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl was arrested in Smith County Tuesday. Tony Rincker, 60,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29942,18153,115052,89190,27,29,28,115051],"class_list":["post-321262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-sexually-assaulting","tag-smith-county","tag-smith-county-jail","tag-smith-county-jail-records","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tony-rincker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}