{"id":182586,"date":"2012-04-20T12:06:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T17:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=182586"},"modified":"2012-04-22T08:01:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T13:01:51","slug":"tarrant-county-man-guilty-of-drug-crimes-in-east-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=182586","title":{"rendered":"Tarrant County Man Guilty of Drug Crimes in East Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=182587\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-182587\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/04\/thumb_FederalCourthouse2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_FederalCourthouse\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-182587\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 A 38-year-old Fort Worth man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas.  Ray Lee Ransom, Jr., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute hydrocodone, alprazolam, and promethazine with codeine Friday in Tyler before U.S. Magistrate Judge John D. Love.<\/p>\n<p>According to information presented in court, from May 2009 through May 2010, Ransom purchased hydrocodone, alprazolam, and promethazine with codeine from numerous pharmacies in the Eastern District of Texas and other areas using fraudulent prescriptions.  He then sold the controlled substances to others.  Ransom and five others were indicted by a federal grand jury on Nov. 2, 2011. Ransom faces up to 10 years in federal prison.  A sentencing date has not been set.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 A 38-year-old Fort Worth man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas. Ray Lee Ransom, Jr., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute hydrocodone, alprazolam, and promethazine with codeine Friday in Tyler before U.S. Magistrate Judge John D. Love. According to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=182586\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tarrant County Man Guilty of Drug Crimes in East Texas<\/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-182586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 01:27:44","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\/182586","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=182586"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182859,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182586\/revisions\/182859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}