{"id":1153425,"date":"2022-08-13T16:04:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T21:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1153425"},"modified":"2022-08-15T11:55:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T16:55:53","slug":"cherokee-county-commissioner-arrested-for-dwi-evading-gives-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1153425","title":{"rendered":"Cherokee County Commissioner arrested for DWI, evading gives apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/08\/sn.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"147\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1153426\" \/>RUSK \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Cherokee County commissioner was arrested Friday night for evading arrest and driving while intoxicated. He has since apologized for the incident.  According to our news partner KETK, Steven Norton, 51, said in an apology posted to his personal Facebook page that he \u00e2\u20ac\u0153takes full responsibility for creating this incident.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Norton is the Precinct 2 commissioner and said he wants to apologize to his family, friends, constituents, and law enforcement personnel for his judgment on Friday night. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is not who I am,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Norton said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I promise with all my heart I had no intent to evade arrest. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see any lights until I was in my driveway.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Norton said he has never been in any kind of trouble in his life and has had about three or four speeding tickets in his driving career. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I promise everyone that I will fully responsibility for my actions, Norton said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Going forward, I will uphold the high standard of behavior that is expected of me. I know I am better than this.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSK \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A Cherokee County commissioner was arrested Friday night for evading arrest and driving while intoxicated. He has since apologized for the incident. According to our news partner KETK, Steven Norton, 51, said in an apology posted to his personal Facebook page that he \u00e2\u20ac\u0153takes full responsibility for creating this incident.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Norton is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1153425\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cherokee County Commissioner arrested for DWI, evading gives apology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1153431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/08\/sn.png","fifu_image_alt":"Cherokee County Commissioner arrested for DWI, evading gives apology","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 05:19:09","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\/2022\/08\/sn.png","fifu_image_alt":"Cherokee County Commissioner arrested for DWI, evading gives apology","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153425","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=1153425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153429,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153425\/revisions\/1153429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1153431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}