{"id":767063,"date":"2019-02-05T11:40:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=767063"},"modified":"2019-02-06T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:40:03","slug":"numerous-arrests-follows-lengthy-east-texas-drug-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=767063","title":{"rendered":"Numerous Arrests Follow Lengthy East Texas Drug Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/01\/tyler-federalbuilding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/01\/tyler-federalbuilding-200x149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"149\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-581220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/01\/tyler-federalbuilding-200x149.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/01\/tyler-federalbuilding.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; Seven persons have been arrested following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking activities in Upshur County. All of the suspects are from Gilmer. They were indicted by a federal grand jury in Tyler last month. The indictment was unsealed on Monday after the final defendant was arrested. Several of the suspects were charged with weapons violations. All of them have been charged with with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The charges stem from a multi agency investigation that started in 2017. If convicted, they  could each face from five to 40 years in federal prison. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Arrested in the case were:<br \/>\nRoger Dale Hall, 53<br \/>\nDenise Michelle Taylor, 35<br \/>\nChristopher Dewayne Bunn, 43<br \/>\nShaun Dale Weeks, 43<br \/>\nJessie Darwin Ezell, 37<br \/>\nDarrell Lynn Gage, Jr., 41<br \/>\nKenny Okeith Harris, 32<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; Seven persons have been arrested following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking activities in Upshur County. All of the suspects are from Gilmer. They were indicted by a federal grand jury in Tyler last month. The indictment was unsealed on Monday after the final defendant was arrested. Several of the suspects were charged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=767063\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Numerous Arrests Follow Lengthy East Texas Drug Probe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":581220,"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-767063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 17:01:09","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\/767063","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=767063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767077,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767063\/revisions\/767077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/581220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}