{"id":156794,"date":"2012-01-13T15:27:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T21:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=156794"},"modified":"2012-01-14T16:51:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T22:51:21","slug":"city-probes-allegations-against-tatum-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=156794","title":{"rendered":"City Probes Allegations against Tatum Police Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>TATUM — Tatum officials are investigating allegations brought against the police chief by a woman who said she was forced by the chief to leave her home in her vehicle while she was intoxicated. Meanwhile, according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, another Tatum police officer is on an unpaid leave of absence. Tatum Mayor Phil Cory said the city was looking into the allegations brought against Tatum Police Chief Ron Martin during Monday\u2019s city council meeting by Tonia Camancho, a Tatum resident. Cory wouldn\u2019t comment on why another officer is on an unpaid leave of absence.<\/p>\n

Camancho said she asked to be placed on the city council meeting\u2019s agenda to speak because Martin was refusing to let her file complaints regarding the situation and threatened to arrest her. In the city council meeting, Camancho said the issue started Dec. 15 at her Tatum residence, which is in the 100 block of McNeese Circle. Rusk County Sheriff\u2019s officers responded to Camancho\u2019s home, which she shares with Tatum Police Officer Jeffrey Brock, in connection with a domestic issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI called the sheriff\u2019s office again, but this time (Martin) intercepted the call. The chief came into my home, didn\u2019t ask me any questions and said \u2018get your stuff and get out of here.\u2019 What could I do? He said he was going to take me to jail if I didn\u2019t do what he said,\u201d Camancho said. \u201cI told him three times I was too intoxicated to drive, and he shined a light in my eye and said, \u2018You\u2019re not too intoxicated to drive. Get in your car and drive.\u2019\u201d She also said Martin grabbed a basket of her clothes and put her out in the rain while she was wearing one shoe.<\/p>\n

The mayor wouldn\u2019t confirm whether Brock was on an unpaid leave of absence. According to the city council minutes, Camancho asked officials why Brock had been suspended because of the investigation, but Martin had not been. Cory said the city council is scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday to finish discussing the allegations brought against Martin. Monday, the city council met until almost midnight discussing Camancho\u2019s allegations. \u201cWe really haven\u2019t completed the investigation. It got late and we decided we couldn\u2019t go on,\u201d Cory said. \u201cWe have an officer under investigation, but I can\u2019t comment on why, or who. We\u2019re going to follow the law. If there\u2019s anything criminal going on, we\u2019re going to address it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cory said the situation was brought to the city\u2019s attention within the past few weeks. He noted that aside from this situation, no complaints had been filed against Martin. \u201cNow we have complaints from people who disagree with getting a ticket, but as far as any official complaints, there have been none,\u201d he said. Martin couldn\u2019t be reached for comment Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TATUM — Tatum officials are investigating allegations brought against the police chief by a woman who said she was forced by the chief to leave her home in her vehicle while she was intoxicated. Meanwhile, according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, another Tatum police officer is on an unpaid leave of absence. Tatum Mayor … Continue reading City Probes Allegations against Tatum Police Chief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 13:57:27","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\/156794","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156794"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156974,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156794\/revisions\/156974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}