TATUM \u2014 Former Tatum Police Chief Ron Martin, who resigned in January amid allegations that were brought against him by a Tatum resident who said she was forced to leave her home and drive while intoxicated, was given a dishonorable discharge from the department. According to KETK, Martin was originally given a general discharge, but it was amended and changed to a dishonorable discharge this past week. <\/p>\n
This wasn\u2019t the first time Martin has been accused of using his position inappropriately. A lawsuit was filed against Martin and Graham Central Station in Longview with the Eastern District of Texas after a man claimed he was removed from the club against his will, and Martin used pepper spray on him, according to court records. The lawsuit, which was dismissed about a year after it was filed, said Martin assaulted Terry Wallace on July 19, 2008 at the club.<\/p>\n
There is also an open lawsuit against Martin in Rusk County after Robert Wade Hughes said he was pistol-whipped by Martin even though he was complying with his orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TATUM \u2014 Former Tatum Police Chief Ron Martin, who resigned in January amid allegations that were brought against him by a Tatum resident who said she was forced to leave her home and drive while intoxicated, was given a dishonorable discharge from the department. According to KETK, Martin was originally given a general discharge, but … Continue reading Dishonorable Discharge for an East Texas 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-166894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 07:52:06","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\/166894","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=166894"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167267,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166894\/revisions\/167267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}