{"id":294473,"date":"2014-03-12T15:48:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T20:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=294473"},"modified":"2014-03-13T15:57:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T20:57:43","slug":"authorities-criminal-enterprise-spurs-multiple-arrests-in-cherokee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=294473","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Enterprise Spurs Arrests in Cherokee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/03\/FBI-letters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/03\/FBI-letters.jpg\" alt=\"FBI letters\" width=\"150\" height=\"73\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-294564\" \/><\/a>CHEROKEE COUNTY &#8212; Seven people have been arrested in Cherokee County on multiple counts of federal drug and firearms violations after a federal grand jury returned a sealed six-count indictment.  Authorities say the indictment resulted from a lengthy investigation launched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cherokee County Sheriff\u2019s Office, and the Jacksonville Police Department.  The Rusk Police Department assisted in the apprehension and arrest of four of the suspects.  At the time of the arrests, over 100 grams of methamphetamine, 10 firearms, and cash were seized, according to officials. If convicted, the defendants face between 5-40 years in prison and fines of up to $5,000,000 on the drug charges and additional incarceration on the weapons charges. <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>All of the defendants are residents of Cherokee County and are currently in custody. Initial appearances were held before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nicole Mitchell in Tyler on March 11.<\/p>\n<p>Those named in the indictment are:<\/p>\n<p>Eric Scott Smart, 30<br \/>\nSteven Ray Davis, 42<br \/>\nMichael Wayne Christopher, 52<br \/>\nJimmy Royce Stafford, aka \u201cJimmy Loven,\u201d 28<br \/>\nKarl Dwayne Underwood, 23<br \/>\nJimmy Chance Guillen, 23<br \/>\nDarren Michael Massey, 20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHEROKEE COUNTY &#8212; Seven people have been arrested in Cherokee County on multiple counts of federal drug and firearms violations after a federal grand jury returned a sealed six-count indictment. Authorities say the indictment resulted from a lengthy investigation launched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cherokee County Sheriff\u2019s Office, and the Jacksonville Police &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=294473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Criminal Enterprise Spurs Arrests in Cherokee County<\/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-294473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 13:08:59","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\/294473","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=294473"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294571,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294473\/revisions\/294571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}