{"id":1300048,"date":"2024-02-22T16:27:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T22:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1300048"},"modified":"2024-02-24T13:33:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T19:33:03","slug":"phone-scam-alert-from-smith-county-sheriffs-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1300048","title":{"rendered":"Scam alert from Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/sheriff-smithcounty-175x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1195452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/sheriff-smithcounty-175x167.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/sheriff-smithcounty.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office announced  Thursday the names of two people employed by the county are being used in recent phone scams. According to our news partner KETK, the caller will say he is either Sgt. Tim Jones or Sgt. Justin Hall and will claim to be with the Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office civil processing division, needing to discuss an urgent matter. Authorities say the discussion always ends with the victim owning money.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say in a release that, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office employs both a Sgt. Tim Jones and Sgt. Justin Hall, but their names are just being used for the purpose of scamming individuals,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d officials said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you receive a call from anyone advising that they are a law enforcement official and you owe money, please just hang up.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>If you want to verify a scam, your asked to call the sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office non-emergency number at 903-566-6600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office announced Thursday the names of two people employed by the county are being used in recent phone scams. According to our news partner KETK, the caller will say he is either Sgt. Tim Jones or Sgt. Justin Hall and will claim to be with the Smith County Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1300048\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scam alert from Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1300057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/sheriff-smithcounty-175x167.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Phone scam alert from Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Office","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 09:26:56","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\/01\/sheriff-smithcounty-175x167.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Phone scam alert from Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Office","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300048","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=1300048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300119,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300048\/revisions\/1300119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1300057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}