{"id":320716,"date":"2014-12-10T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T20:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320716"},"modified":"2014-12-11T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T21:46:00","slug":"fire-marshal-animal-cruelty-case-one-of-the-worst-hes-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320716","title":{"rendered":"Fire Marshal: Animal Cruelty Case One of the Worst He&#8217;s Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/Roy-Brooks-Jr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/Roy-Brooks-Jr-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Roy Brooks Jr\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-301672\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 The Smith County Fire Marshal&#8217;s Office is seeking information on what Fire Marshal Jay Brooks calls &#8220;by far one of the worst animal cruelty cases I have ever seen.&#8221;  KETK reports that on Tuesday a tan pit bull was tied up to a private kennel near the intersection of Spur 248 and Highway 64 East.  &#8220;This poor dog was starving and suffering due to injuries of its jaw,&#8221; said Brooks. &#8220;It is absolutely disgusting.&#8221;  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Brooks says this type of behavior should not and will not be tolerated.  &#8220;This was the sweetest animal, despite being in the pain it was in,&#8221; says. &#8220;This is a big problem in East Texas.&#8221; Unfortunately, the dog was not able to overcome the injuries and had to be put down.  Officials are asking anyone with information on this or any other case of animal cruelty to contact the fire marshal&#8217;s office at 903-590-2655 or call 911. Your name is not needed, just information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 The Smith County Fire Marshal&#8217;s Office is seeking information on what Fire Marshal Jay Brooks calls &#8220;by far one of the worst animal cruelty cases I have ever seen.&#8221; KETK reports that on Tuesday a tan pit bull was tied up to a private kennel near the intersection of Spur 248 and Highway &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fire Marshal: Animal Cruelty Case One of the Worst He&#8217;s Seen<\/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-320716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 14:16:12","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\/320716","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=320716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320721,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320716\/revisions\/320721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}