GREGG COUNTY — Local authorities are warning of a scam recently reported in the area. The con involves tricking the victim into paying for a non-existent warrant. According to KETK, the Gregg County Sheriff’s Office released this statement in response to concerned citizen reports:<\/p>\n
“The Gregg County Sheriff’s Office has received reports that persons are being contacted by phone and told that they need to provide credit card information in order to pay for a warrant for not attending jury duty. This is a scam that is occurring in Texas and in other states. No one with Gregg County or any other agency will solicit credit card information over the phone to pay for a warrant.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
GREGG COUNTY — Local authorities are warning of a scam recently reported in the area. The con involves tricking the victim into paying for a non-existent warrant. According to KETK, the Gregg County Sheriff’s Office released this statement in response to concerned citizen reports: “The Gregg County Sheriff’s Office has received reports that persons are … Continue reading Officials Warn of Jury Duty Scam<\/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-313228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 15:31:49","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\/313228","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=313228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313232,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313228\/revisions\/313232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}