{"id":211417,"date":"2012-09-07T02:27:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T07:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=211417"},"modified":"2012-09-08T07:47:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T12:47:41","slug":"motion-to-dismiss-charges-against-former-constable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=211417","title":{"rendered":"Motion to Dismiss Charges Against Former Constable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=211418\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-211418\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/09\/Dustin-Rust-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dustin Rust\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-211418\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; A motion will be heard next Friday to dismiss three criminal charges against former Smith County Constable Dustin Rust. The motion was filed by special prosecutor Lance Larson.<\/p>\n<p>Rust resigned last month after being indicted by a Smith County grand jury on charges of theft and running a security company without a license. When he resigned, he said he had accepted another supervisory law enforcement job, but would not elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>According to the motion, Rust last monthentered into a written agreement that he would resign and repay $7,698 &#8220;for the time and cost of vehicles used by deputy constables while on duty with the county and working security.&#8221; The motion adds that Rust would report to community supervision for a year and complete conditions of the probation. If the probation was violated, the case would be refiled. <\/p>\n<p>State District Judge Jack Skeen will hear the dismissal motion on September 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; A motion will be heard next Friday to dismiss three criminal charges against former Smith County Constable Dustin Rust. The motion was filed by special prosecutor Lance Larson. Rust resigned last month after being indicted by a Smith County grand jury on charges of theft and running a security company without a license. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=211417\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Motion to Dismiss Charges Against Former Constable<\/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-211417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 15:32:11","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\/211417","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=211417"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211670,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211417\/revisions\/211670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}