{"id":17063,"date":"2013-10-03T16:04:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T23:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-city-council-candidate-ken-sharp-due-back-in-court-nov-20\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T01:45:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T08:45:34","slug":"kent-city-council-candidate-ken-sharp-due-back-in-court-nov-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-city-council-candidate-ken-sharp-due-back-in-court-nov-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent City Council candidate Ken Sharp due back in court Nov. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Kent City Council candidate Ken Sharp is scheduled to return to court Nov. 20 as he faces seven counts of first-degree theft for reportedly stealing $297,500 from his 93-year-old mother&#8217;s bank account and putting the money into his account.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Sharp, who pleaded not guilty to the charges on Aug. 29, had a case-setting Wednesday in King County Superior Court in Kent that was continued to Nov. 20, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney&#8217;s Office. A trial date can be set during the court hearing or attorneys can ask for more time to prepare the case.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Sharp is running against Bailey Stober for a council seat. King County Elections mails ballots Oct. 16 for the Nov. 5 general election.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Federal Way Police arrested and released Sharp on June 21 for investigation of theft from his mother, a Federal Way resident.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If convicted as charged, Sharp faces a prison sentence of 22 to 29 months, according to Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecuting Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent City Council candidate Ken Sharp is scheduled to return to court Nov. 20 as he faces seven counts of first-degree theft for reportedly stealing $297,500 from his 93-year-old mother&#8217;s bank account and putting the money into his account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":17064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17063"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}