{"id":115068,"date":"2026-01-08T04:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115068\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T04:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:14:06","slug":"medical-employee-indicted-for-smuggling-drugs-into-lubbock-county-detention-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/115068\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical employee indicted for smuggling drugs into Lubbock County Detention Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock grand jury indicted a medical employee in connection with smuggling drugs into the Lubbock County Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tracy Damron was caught with several bags of medication during a bag check in March 2024, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The drugs were sorted in several small envelopes used to dispense inmate medication. One of the drugs found was Clonazepam, a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Medical staff are required to log any doses given to inmates. Possession of any controlled substance in a correctional facility is a third-degree felony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Damron faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock grand jury indicted a medical employee in connection with smuggling drugs into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4212,319,66,168,30331,170,169,223,50624],"class_list":{"0":"post-115068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-indicted","9":"tag-kcbd","10":"tag-local","11":"tag-lubbock","12":"tag-lubbock-county-detention-center","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-tracy-damron"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115068","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=115068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}