{"id":598585,"date":"2017-03-21T15:31:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T20:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=598585"},"modified":"2017-03-22T15:31:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:31:05","slug":"kilgore-police-investigating-a-facebook-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=598585","title":{"rendered":"Kilgore Police Investigating Facebook Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/03\/Kilgore-Facebook-scam.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/03\/Kilgore-Facebook-scam-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-598586\" \/><\/a>KILGORE &#8211; Kilgore police are looking for a suspect wanted in a scam using Facebook. Two Henderson women are out $200 after trying to buy a car on Facebook. They used Facebook Messenger to say they wanted to buy a car. They were contacted and a man took them to Kilgore for the purchase. Once in Kilgore, he took their money and gave them a receipt and a key. He told them a woman would bring them the car shortly. He left and she never showed up. They have a picture of a suspect, but they don&#8217;t know if the picture is real or fictitious.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The man is described as a heavy set black male in his mid 30s and with a full beard. If you have information, please contact Detective Stephen Goodson at 903- 218-6903 or by email at <a href=\"mailto:stephen.goodson@cityofkilgore.com\">stephen.goodson@cityofkilgore.com<\/a>. You may also contact the Gregg County Crimestoppers at 903 236 STOP or you can text your anonymous tip to 847411+KILGORE+your tip. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE &#8211; Kilgore police are looking for a suspect wanted in a scam using Facebook. Two Henderson women are out $200 after trying to buy a car on Facebook. They used Facebook Messenger to say they wanted to buy a car. They were contacted and a man took them to Kilgore for the purchase. Once &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=598585\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kilgore Police Investigating Facebook Scam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":598586,"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-598585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 04:39:12","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\/598585","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=598585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598814,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598585\/revisions\/598814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/598586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}