{"id":447658,"date":"2016-02-03T14:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T20:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=447658"},"modified":"2016-02-04T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T20:52:00","slug":"police-vehicle-thief-busted-after-filling-out-job-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=447658","title":{"rendered":"Police: Vehicle Thief Busted after Filling Out Job Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/02\/courtney-wheat_1454519901095_6873941_ver1.0.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-447662\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/02\/courtney-wheat_1454519901095_6873941_ver1.0-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"courtney wheat_1454519901095_6873941_ver1.0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-447662\" \/><\/a>KILGORE &#8212; A Longview man outed himself by way of a job application shortly after he stole a car in the Kilgore area, according to police.   According to KETK, police say on Tuesday night, a man entered a restaurant to get a bite to eat but left his vehicle running. While the man was inside the business, a burglar jumped in his vehicle and sped away.  Responding officers learned the suspect had just filled out a job application containing his personal information right before the car was taken. Kilgore Police said officers also knew the man from previous run-ins with the law, and a Be on the Lookout (BOLO) was issued for Courtney Cordell Wheat. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Longview Police were able to locate the man at the Budget Inn off Highway 80 in Gregg County. He was arrested and booked into jail for unauthorized use of a vehicle. Wheat, 29, is being held on $3,500 bond.  Kilgore Police ask citizens be mindful of leaving their vehicle running in public or private places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE &#8212; A Longview man outed himself by way of a job application shortly after he stole a car in the Kilgore area, according to police. According to KETK, police say on Tuesday night, a man entered a restaurant to get a bite to eat but left his vehicle running. While the man was inside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=447658\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Police: Vehicle Thief Busted after Filling Out Job Application<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":447662,"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-447658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 23:29:40","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\/447658","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=447658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447692,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447658\/revisions\/447692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/447662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}