{"id":191052,"date":"2012-05-24T10:38:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T15:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=191052"},"modified":"2012-05-25T10:48:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T15:48:13","slug":"trial-postponed-for-constable-accused-of-drug-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=191052","title":{"rendered":"Trial Postponed for Constable Accused of Drug Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=191156\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-191156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/05\/Benjamin-Thomas-Ferrell2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Benjamin Thomas Ferrell2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-191156\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 A May court hearing for a Rusk County constable accused of manufacturing and selling illegal drugs was continued. Benjamin Thomas Ferrell, 36, of Henderson was scheduled for a pretrial hearing May 14 in U.S. District Court in Tyler. According to the Longview News-Journal, Ferrell was arrested in March and charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances and delivery of a firearm to a felon. He was freed on $10,000 bond after his arraignment on the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrell, who is seeking re-election, represents Precinct. 2, which is Tatum and northeast Rusk County. Richard Parsons, a spokesman for the Secretary of State\u2019s Office, said the indictment against Ferrell \u201cdoes not impact his candidate status unless or until there is a final felony conviction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ferrell\u2019s wife, Amanda Gayle, faces a state jail felony charge of manufacture\/delivery of a controlled substance. Her charge is connected to the federal counts her husband faces, after a joint investigation by Rusk County authorities and the FBI. She, too, was freed on $10,000 bond after being charged.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrell has a continuance until August 13. The judge set a deadline on August 27 to notify the court if there is a plea agreement. A pretrial conference is set on September 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 A May court hearing for a Rusk County constable accused of manufacturing and selling illegal drugs was continued. Benjamin Thomas Ferrell, 36, of Henderson was scheduled for a pretrial hearing May 14 in U.S. District Court in Tyler. According to the Longview News-Journal, Ferrell was arrested in March and charged with conspiracy to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=191052\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trial Postponed for Constable Accused of Drug Violations<\/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-191052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 10:50:38","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\/191052","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=191052"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191394,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191052\/revisions\/191394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}