{"id":1511960,"date":"2026-06-02T13:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1511960"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:32:58","slug":"fbi-has-active-operation-in-smith-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1511960","title":{"rendered":"FBI operation in area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1511961\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/FBI-200x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>TYLER \u2014 Members of the FBI are in Smith County conducting what is being described as an authorized court operation on US Highway 69 North. Sources report that the operation may be connected to a human smuggling investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the FBI confirmed that they are conducting the operation at the addresses of 10623 Highway 69 North and 10713 and US 69 North. Multiple agencies, including Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and the Texas Department of Public Safety, are responding to the location between Tyler and Lindale.<\/p>\n<p>This story is still developing and updates will be provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Members of the FBI are in Smith County conducting what is being described as an authorized court operation on US Highway 69 North. Sources report that the operation may be connected to a human smuggling investigation. A spokesperson for the FBI confirmed that they are conducting the operation at the addresses of 10623 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1511960\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FBI operation in area<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1511961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 21:20:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511960","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=1511960"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512134,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511960\/revisions\/1512134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1511960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1511960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1511960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}