{"id":1276490,"date":"2023-11-17T14:30:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1276490"},"modified":"2023-11-19T08:03:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T14:03:58","slug":"east-texas-man-arrested-after-allegedly-asking-emergency-room-staff-to-test-his-meth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1276490","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after allegedly asking ER to test his meth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1276566\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/METH-167x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/METH-167x175.jpg 167w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/METH-334x350.jpg 334w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/METH.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/>TEXARKANA \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Our news colleagues at KETK report that an East Texas man was arrested after allegedly bringing meth to a local emergency room \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to make sure it was safe.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 65-year-old Timothy Smith reportedly visited an emergency room on Nov. 9 in Texarkana. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153While he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sick, he did want them to do him a favor \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to test his meth to make sure it was safe,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Texarkana PD said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A little in disbelief, they asked him to have a seat and told him that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be right back. While he waited, they called 911.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Texarkana police officers Dacota Taylor and Dewey Fleming started talking to Smith when they got to the scene. When a hospital employee asked Smith to show her the drugs he wanted tested, police said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153he casually reached into his pocket and pulled out a baggie that had 1.2 grams of methamphetamine in it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Smith was arrested on the spot and booked into the Bi-State Jail for possession of a controlled substance. His bond was set at $7,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEXARKANA \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Our news colleagues at KETK report that an East Texas man was arrested after allegedly bringing meth to a local emergency room \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to make sure it was safe.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 65-year-old Timothy Smith reportedly visited an emergency room on Nov. 9 in Texarkana. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153While he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sick, he did want them to do him a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1276490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man arrested after allegedly asking ER to test his meth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1276502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/11\/METH-167x175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas man arrested after allegedly asking emergency room staff to test his meth","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 07:23:05","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\/2023\/11\/METH-167x175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas man arrested after allegedly asking emergency room staff to test his meth","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276490","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1276490"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276681,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276490\/revisions\/1276681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1276502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1276490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1276490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1276490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}