{"id":1077361,"date":"2021-11-29T13:31:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T19:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1077361"},"modified":"2021-12-01T06:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T12:23:00","slug":"commissioners-court-accepts-constables-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1077361","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners court accepts constable&#8217;s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1076703\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/billyfort-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Gregg County Commissioners Court Monday officially accepted the resignation of Precinct 2 Constable William \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Billy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fort, effective Dec. 31. According to our news partner KETK, Fort was arrested Oct. 12 for DWI while he was in a department car. He was pulled over into a Brookshire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parking lot and was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153swerving in and out of all lanes\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 almost striking another vehicle,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to officials. While he was talking with police, Fort admitted to taking Xanax and a muscle relaxer. He then failed three sobriety tests. In his resignation letter, Fort called Precinct 2 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Best Precinct in the Best County in the Best State of the Best Nation on this Earth,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d adding that he regrets the circumstances surrounding his resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Gregg County Commissioners Court Monday officially accepted the resignation of Precinct 2 Constable William \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Billy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fort, effective Dec. 31. According to our news partner KETK, Fort was arrested Oct. 12 for DWI while he was in a department car. He was pulled over into a Brookshire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parking lot and was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153swerving in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1077361\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Commissioners court accepts constable&#8217;s resignation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1077367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/11\/billyfort-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Commissioners court accepts constable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s resignation","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 02:04:46","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\/11\/billyfort-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Commissioners court accepts constable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s resignation","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077361","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077559,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077361\/revisions\/1077559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}