{"id":204831,"date":"2012-08-05T07:38:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T12:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=204831"},"modified":"2012-08-06T10:55:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T15:55:13","slug":"drug-dog-initiated-large-meth-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=204831","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Drug Dog&#8217; Initiated Large Meth Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=204926\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-204926\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/08\/Fernando-Mercado-Zertuche-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Fernando Mercado Zertuche\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-204926\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 Tyler Police have confiscated a large amount of methamphetamine during a traffic stop. It happened around 7:00 Saturday night in the 3300 block of Mineola Highway. The driver, Fernando Mercado Zertuche, 25, Mexico, was arrested for traffic offenses. During the stop, the officer\u2019s K-9 partner, Paco, \u201calerted\u201d on the vehicle indicating that there was possibly an illegal substance inside. After further investigation officers located 5.4 pounds of methamphetamine in a hidden compartment inside the vehicle. The meth had a street value of over $100,000. Zertuche was charged with manufacturing\/delivery of a controlled substance and traffic offenses. He was booked into the Smith County Jail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Tyler Police have confiscated a large amount of methamphetamine during a traffic stop. It happened around 7:00 Saturday night in the 3300 block of Mineola Highway. The driver, Fernando Mercado Zertuche, 25, Mexico, was arrested for traffic offenses. During the stop, the officer\u2019s K-9 partner, Paco, \u201calerted\u201d on the vehicle indicating that there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=204831\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Drug Dog&#8217; Initiated Large Meth Bust<\/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-204831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 00:39:55","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\/204831","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=204831"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204986,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204831\/revisions\/204986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}