{"id":216476,"date":"2012-10-03T14:53:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T19:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=216476"},"modified":"2012-10-04T14:27:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T19:27:40","slug":"plea-deal-accepted-in-rust-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=216476","title":{"rendered":"Plea Deal Accepted in Rust Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=216481\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-216481\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/10\/rustsnap-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"rustsnap\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-216481\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 Judge Jack Skeen has accepted a plea deal proposed by Smith County District Attorney Matt Bingham in the case against former Smith County Precinct 3 Constable Dustin Rust. Skeen had first ordered the case to go to trial, and that trial was set to begin Wednesday. According to KETK, Rust pleads guilty to operating a security company without a license, which is a class A misdemeanor. Rust must pay $7,698 in restitution, and will be under 2 years of probation. He will not receive any jail time. The felony charge against him has been dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Controversy has swirled around Rust ever since he was indicted for misuse of county property in April 2012. He is accused of using his deputies for a private security detail in Smith County neighborhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Judge Jack Skeen has accepted a plea deal proposed by Smith County District Attorney Matt Bingham in the case against former Smith County Precinct 3 Constable Dustin Rust. Skeen had first ordered the case to go to trial, and that trial was set to begin Wednesday. According to KETK, Rust pleads guilty to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=216476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plea Deal Accepted in Rust Case<\/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-216476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 06:44:32","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\/216476","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=216476"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216684,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216476\/revisions\/216684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}