{"id":172086,"date":"2012-03-15T16:50:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T21:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=172086"},"modified":"2012-03-16T16:25:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T21:25:26","slug":"rusk-county-constable-wife-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=172086","title":{"rendered":"Rusk County Constable, Wife in Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=172096\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-172096\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/03\/Benjamin-Thomas-Ferrell-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Benjamin Thomas Ferrell\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-172096\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 Rusk County\u2019s Precinct 2 Constable has been charged with federal drug and firearms violations. Benjamin Thomas Ferrell, 36, of Henderson, was indicted on March 8 and charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances and delivery of a firearm to a convicted felon.  Ferrell was arrested yesterday and appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith Guthrie this afternoon for an initial appearance in federal court.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, Ferrell is alleged to have conspired with an unindicted co-conspirator from December 2001 to January 2012, to possess with intent to distribute phentermine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, and marijuana.  It also alleges Ferrell sold an SKS assault rifle to a known felon on January of this year.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Ferrell faces up to 20 years in federal prison for the drug violations and up to 10 years for the firearms offense.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Amanda Gayle Ferrell, 32, of Henderson, was arrested at her residence on County Road 2127, by Rusk County Sheriff\u2019s Office Narcotics Officers. She was charged with two counts of Manufacture\/Delivery of Controlled Substance, a state jail felony. She remains in the Rusk County Jail with bond set at $10,000. The investigation continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 Rusk County\u2019s Precinct 2 Constable has been charged with federal drug and firearms violations. Benjamin Thomas Ferrell, 36, of Henderson, was indicted on March 8 and charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances and delivery of a firearm to a convicted felon. Ferrell was arrested yesterday and appeared before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=172086\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rusk County Constable, Wife in Custody<\/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-172086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 15:43:54","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\/172086","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=172086"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172333,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172086\/revisions\/172333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}