{"id":1330251,"date":"2024-06-13T07:20:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T12:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1330251"},"modified":"2024-06-14T16:14:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T21:14:31","slug":"former-east-texas-police-chief-accepts-plea-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1330251","title":{"rendered":"Former East Texas police chief accepts plea deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1330252\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/2024-06-13_072037-225x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/2024-06-13_072037-225x200.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/2024-06-13_072037-393x350.jpg 393w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/2024-06-13_072037.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>HENDERSON COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c According to our news partner KETK, former Payne Springs Chief of Police April Meadows accepted a plea last month for charges of money laundering and manufacturing\/delivery of a controlled substance. According to court documents, she must give up her peace officers license as part of her plea. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Aug. 27 at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows was accused alongside former Payne Springs police officer Jonathan Hutchison, who is also accused of money laundering and manufacturing\/delivery of a controlled substance.. Henderson County Sheriff Botie Hillhouse said at the time of their arrests that search warrants of their homes revealed controlled substances inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c According to our news partner KETK, former Payne Springs Chief of Police April Meadows accepted a plea last month for charges of money laundering and manufacturing\/delivery of a controlled substance. According to court documents, she must give up her peace officers license as part of her plea. A sentencing hearing has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1330251\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former East Texas police chief accepts plea deal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1330253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/2024-06-13_072037-225x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Former East Texas police chief accepts plea deal","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 00:35:34","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\/06\/2024-06-13_072037-225x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Former East Texas police chief accepts plea deal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330251","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330581,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330251\/revisions\/1330581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1330253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}