{"id":57041,"date":"2025-03-27T02:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=57041"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:30:32","slug":"my-grandson-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=57041","title":{"rendered":"MY GRANDSON WAS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1220.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1220.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1220-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I watched in disbelief as they took my grandson, Ricky, away in handcuffs. His head hung low, and no matter how many times I called his name, he wouldn\u2019t look at me. Ricky was a good kid\u2014stubborn, but good. He made mistakes, but I knew he wasn\u2019t a criminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer barely met my gaze as he shut the squad car door. \u201cHe\u2019ll be booked downtown, ma\u2019am,\u201d he said, before driving off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hours passed, and the silence in the house was unbearable. Then, late that night, a knock at the door. It was the officer, Detective Owens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Where&#8217;s Ricky?&#8221; I asked, stiffening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s being processed,&#8221; he replied, but his tone was different now. \u201cMs. Halloway\u2026 there\u2019s something you need to know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I frowned. \u201cWhat are you talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Owens hesitated, then admitted, &#8220;I made a mistake. Ricky shouldn\u2019t have been arrested&#8230; the evidence was planted.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I froze. &#8220;Planted?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSomeone set him up,\u201d Owens confessed. \u201cA cop. Sheriff Dwayne Miller.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My blood ran cold. Sheriff Miller, the corrupt man who had controlled this town for decades, wanted my grandson gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stood tall. \u201cTell me everything. We\u2019re bringing him down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=57001\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched in disbelief as they took my grandson, Ricky, away in handcuffs. His head hung low, and no matter how many times I called his name,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57043,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57041\/revisions\/57043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}