{"id":1056233,"date":"2021-09-13T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T16:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1056233"},"modified":"2021-09-14T11:39:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T16:39:02","slug":"smith-county-pct-2-constable-arrested-second-time-for-prostitution-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1056233","title":{"rendered":"Constable&#8217;s prostitution trial pushed back so oppression trial can start first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1056234\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/Black-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TYLER &#8212; A misdemeanor prostitution trial for a Smith County constable is being pushed back to allow a separate felony oppression trial to proceed first. According to our news partner KETK, Precinct 2 Constable Josh Black was arrested for misdemeanor prostitution and felony official oppression just days after being elected last November.  114th District Court Judge Reeve Jackson announced that the trial for felony oppression would be scheduled first while a two-week continuance was granted on the misdemeanor prostitution charge. Jury selection in the oppression trial was scheduled for Monday afternoon. Another twist was added in the case when Black was arrested again Friday for a separate indictment of prostitution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A misdemeanor prostitution trial for a Smith County constable is being pushed back to allow a separate felony oppression trial to proceed first. According to our news partner KETK, Precinct 2 Constable Josh Black was arrested for misdemeanor prostitution and felony official oppression just days after being elected last November. 114th District Court &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1056233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Constable&#8217;s prostitution trial pushed back so oppression trial can start first<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1056237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/09\/Black-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County Pct. 2 Constable arrested second time for prostitution charge","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 21:05:19","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\/09\/Black-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County Pct. 2 Constable arrested second time for prostitution charge","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056233","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1056233"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056571,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056233\/revisions\/1056571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}