{"id":1321154,"date":"2024-05-10T10:40:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1321154"},"modified":"2024-05-11T20:01:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T01:01:57","slug":"smith-county-clerk-found-guilty-for-traffic-stop-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1321154","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Clerk found guilty for traffic stop interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/05\/karen_phillips_mugshot-225x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1321155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/05\/karen_phillips_mugshot-225x188.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/05\/karen_phillips_mugshot-420x350.jpg 420w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/05\/karen_phillips_mugshot.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>TYLER &#8211; Smith County Clerk Karen Phillips has been found guilty of misdemeanor interfering with public duties after a March 2023 traffic stop that led to the arrest of her son, his friend and herself. According to our news partner KETK, her trial began on Wednesday, and her sentencing has been scheduled for June 14. Her son Derek was sentenced for the same offense and was sentenced to 30 days in the Smith County Jail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketk.com\/news\/crime-public-safety\/watch-bodycam-video-of-confrontation-leading-to-arrests-of-smith-county-clerk-son\/\">Body cam footage<\/a> of the incident from KETK shows their confrontation with police which led to their November indictment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; Smith County Clerk Karen Phillips has been found guilty of misdemeanor interfering with public duties after a March 2023 traffic stop that led to the arrest of her son, his friend and herself. According to our news partner KETK, her trial began on Wednesday, and her sentencing has been scheduled for June 14. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1321154\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Clerk found guilty for traffic stop interference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3908,"featured_media":1321159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/05\/karen_phillips_mugshot-225x188.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County clerk found guilty for traffic stop interference","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 18:16:28","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\/2024\/05\/karen_phillips_mugshot-225x188.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County clerk found guilty for traffic stop interference","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321154","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\/3908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1321154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321162,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321154\/revisions\/1321162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1321159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}