{"id":41542,"date":"2010-10-01T11:17:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T16:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=41542"},"modified":"2010-10-02T17:02:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T22:02:56","slug":"ex-coach-sentenced-on-dogfighting-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=41542","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Coach Sentenced on Dogfighting Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=41543\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41543\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/10\/js-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"js\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-41543\" \/><\/a>TYLER (AP) &#8211; A former east Texas high school football coach has been sentenced to three years of probation for his role in a dogfighting ring. Jerry Scott Chism of Longview was sentenced Thursday, four months after pleading guilty to a charge of sponsoring or exhibiting an animal fighting venture. He was also fined $2,000. The 36-year-old Chism apologized to U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis, saying he was &#8220;raised to respect and obey the law.&#8221; Chism&#8217;s attorney said his client &#8220;will not disappoint.&#8221; Chism faced up to five years in federal prison after his arrest along with eight others last year in a five-state raid of dogfighting operations. Chism was an assistant coach at Jacksonville High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER (AP) &#8211; A former east Texas high school football coach has been sentenced to three years of probation for his role in a dogfighting ring. Jerry Scott Chism of Longview was sentenced Thursday, four months after pleading guilty to a charge of sponsoring or exhibiting an animal fighting venture. He was also fined $2,000. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=41542\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ex-Coach Sentenced on Dogfighting Charge<\/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-41542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 17:14:21","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\/41542","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=41542"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41853,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41542\/revisions\/41853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}