{"id":286450,"date":"2013-12-21T06:48:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T12:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=286450"},"modified":"2013-12-23T01:59:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T07:59:38","slug":"felon-arrested-for-possession-of-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=286450","title":{"rendered":"Felon Arrested for Possession of Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=286451\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-286451\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/12\/DocumentFragment_4271700-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DocumentFragment_4271700\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-286451\" \/><\/a>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; A Kilgore man, previously convicted of a felony crime, was arrested Thursday night at the Chick-fil-A near Loop 281 and Fourth Street after an employee said he caught him with an unregistered firearm. According to the Longview News-Journal, John Houston Brown, 31, was arrested by Longview police at about 10:15. Police said an employee questioned a case Brown was carrying when he paid for his meal and the man got defensive. Brown said he used the gun for work as a security guard. When police responded they found brass knuckles, 13.38 caliber rounds and a firearm. Brown did not have a concealed handgun license. He was taken to the Gregg County Jail on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. He was held Friday on a $10,000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; A Kilgore man, previously convicted of a felony crime, was arrested Thursday night at the Chick-fil-A near Loop 281 and Fourth Street after an employee said he caught him with an unregistered firearm. According to the Longview News-Journal, John Houston Brown, 31, was arrested by Longview police at about 10:15. Police said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=286450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Felon Arrested for Possession of Gun<\/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-286450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-09 17:48:42","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\/286450","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=286450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286452,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286450\/revisions\/286452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}