{"id":471959,"date":"2026-09-22T13:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471959\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T13:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:46:45","slug":"oakland-mayor-son-friend-back-in-court-in-campaign-sign-theft-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/471959\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland mayor, son, friend back in court in campaign sign theft case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OAKLAND, Tenn. (WMC) -The mayor of Oakland, Tennessee, along with his son and a woman, are back in court Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mayor George Adrian Wiggins faces a conspiracy charge. His son, Thomas Wiggins, and Isabella Marino face theft and conspiracy charges.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"George Wiggins, Thomas Wiggins, Isabella Marino\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790084805_584_WRDJRJC7TJGCHJCERF3AZMTUHA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>George Wiggins, Thomas Wiggins, Isabella Marino(Fayette County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They are accused of c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2026\/09\/01\/oakland-mayor-arrested-scheme-steal-campaign-signs\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/2026\/09\/01\/oakland-mayor-arrested-scheme-steal-campaign-signs\/\">utting and stealing an opponent\u2019s campaign signs<\/a>. At the time, Adrian Wiggins was running for Fayette County Commissioner, a race he lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Action News 5 will be inside the courtroom and will provide live coverage. You can watch the hearing starting at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\">Click here<\/a> to sign up for our newsletter!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfpc96d0EDHinF_AovDBi4RNoKbBfRbCIJiTWqF7p1VNE6ZNA\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to report a spelling or grammar error. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WMC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Tenn. (WMC) -The mayor of Oakland, Tennessee, along with his son and a woman, are back in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[178111,185613,50735,178112,143,145,144,185612],"class_list":["post-471959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-adrian-wiggins","tag-campaign-sign-theft","tag-conspiracy-charge","tag-fayette-county","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-tennessee-mayor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}