{"id":77032,"date":"2011-03-08T14:45:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T20:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=77032"},"modified":"2011-03-09T13:58:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T19:58:37","slug":"new-interim-police-chief-for-diboll-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=77032","title":{"rendered":"New Interim Police Chief for Diboll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DIBOLL \u2014 Less than a week after the resignation of Diboll\u2019s longtime police chief Kent Havard, a new interim chief is announced. Donald R. Morris, retired Texas Ranger and career lawman, will serve as interim chief until a permanent replacement can be found, according to Diboll City Manager Dennis McDuffie. \u201cI will be appointing Donald R. Morris as interim chief March 14,\u201d McDuffie said in a city council meeting Monday night. \u201cWe intend to take our time finding a permanent chief.\u201d Havard resigned March 2, following an ongoing investigation, according to Diboll City Attorney Jimmy Cassels. Because the investigation is active, the details could not be released as of Monday. In the meantime, Sgt. Steve Baker is acting as interim chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIBOLL \u2014 Less than a week after the resignation of Diboll\u2019s longtime police chief Kent Havard, a new interim chief is announced. Donald R. Morris, retired Texas Ranger and career lawman, will serve as interim chief until a permanent replacement can be found, according to Diboll City Manager Dennis McDuffie. \u201cI will be appointing Donald &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=77032\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Interim Police Chief for Diboll<\/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-77032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 15:43:33","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\/77032","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=77032"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77334,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77032\/revisions\/77334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}