{"id":1350347,"date":"2024-08-27T12:53:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1350347"},"modified":"2024-08-29T08:07:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T13:07:26","slug":"former-police-chief-sentenced-to-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1350347","title":{"rendered":"Former police chief sentenced to 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/april-meadows-e1724781153500-225x195.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1350348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/april-meadows-e1724781153500-225x195.webp 225w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/april-meadows-e1724781153500-404x350.webp 404w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/april-meadows-e1724781153500.webp 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Former Payne Springs Chief of Police April Meadows was sentenced to 15 years in prison for money laundering and manufacturing\/delivering drugs, according to our news partners at KETK. She was sentenced to two years for the money laundering charge and 15 years for the felony drug charge in a Henderson County court on Tuesday. Those sentences are set to run concurrently to one another and Meadows already has almost a year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth of jail credit. Meadows was arrested along with Jonathan Hutchison, a former police officer. Earlier this month, Hutchison was sentenced to 20 years in prison for manufacturing or delivering a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance. Henderson County Sheriff Botie Hillhouse said at the time of their arrests that search warrants served at their homes revealed controlled substances inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Former Payne Springs Chief of Police April Meadows was sentenced to 15 years in prison for money laundering and manufacturing\/delivering drugs, according to our news partners at KETK. She was sentenced to two years for the money laundering charge and 15 years for the felony drug charge in a Henderson County court &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1350347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former police chief sentenced to 15 years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1350351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/08\/april-meadows-e1724781153500-225x195.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 01:41:16","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\/08\/april-meadows-e1724781153500-225x195.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350347","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=1350347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350350,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350347\/revisions\/1350350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1350351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}