{"id":105474,"date":"2025-12-30T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105474\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T22:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T22:47:10","slug":"lubbock-county-sheriffs-office-warns-of-jail-scam-targeting-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105474\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s Office warns of jail scam targeting families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s Office is warning residents about a scam targeting families of inmates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies said suspects are using public information on inmates to contact family members, claiming inmates need a class or certification to get out of jail earlier, reduce a sentence or keep their current housing assignment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office said they don\u2019t charge inmates for programs. The programs are free and offered by community volunteers through grants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials warned residents not to give out any bank or credit card information to these scammers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock County Sheriff\u2019s Office is warning residents about a scam targeting families of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[319,45063,168,13589,12125,19888,170,169,223,5793,30779,37284],"class_list":["post-105474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-kcbd","tag-lcso","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-county","tag-lubbock-county-sheriff","tag-lubbock-county-sheriffs-office","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news","tag-scam","tag-scam-alert","tag-scammer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}