{"id":1065352,"date":"2021-10-12T09:44:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T14:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1065352"},"modified":"2021-10-13T10:11:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:11:30","slug":"gregg-county-constable-arrested-for-dwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1065352","title":{"rendered":"Gregg County constable arrested for DWI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1065353\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/10\/GreggCoCon-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>LONGVIEW &#8212; Gregg County Precinct 2 Constable William \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Billy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mayo Fort was arrested early Tuesday morning on a DWI charge. According to our news partner KETK, a post by Longview PD said that Fort was inside a Gregg County Constable car at the time of his arrest and was allegedly \u00e2\u20ac\u0153swerving in and out of all lanes\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 almost striking another vehicle.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He pulled into a Brookshire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parking lot on Gilmer Road and was captured. He admitted to taking a Xanax and muscle relaxer. He then failed three sobriety tests. This is the second East Texas constable to face legal trouble this year. Former Pct. 2 Smith County Constable Josh Black was convicted of official oppression last month. A jury found Black guilty of offering sexual favors in exchange for free or discounted supervised visitation services to a woman. Black was sentenced to six months in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Gregg County Precinct 2 Constable William \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Billy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mayo Fort was arrested early Tuesday morning on a DWI charge. According to our news partner KETK, a post by Longview PD said that Fort was inside a Gregg County Constable car at the time of his arrest and was allegedly \u00e2\u20ac\u0153swerving in and out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1065352\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gregg County constable arrested for DWI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1065355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/10\/GreggCoCon-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Gregg County constable arrested for DWI","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065352","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 17:06:02","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\/10\/GreggCoCon-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Gregg County constable arrested for DWI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065352","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=1065352"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065433,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065352\/revisions\/1065433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1065355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1065352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1065352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1065352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}