The Lake Worth police chief is retiring from law enforcement, effective Friday, Jan. 30.<\/p>\n
J.T. Manoushagian, who has served the public for 22 years, originally announced his retirement on Nov. 19, 2025, through a statement posted on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n Manoushagian is a United States Navy veteran, serving in both the enlisted and officer ranks (E-1 through O-3). He also serves on the board of directors for Alliance for Children, a child advocacy center serving the greater Tarrant area, according to his bio on the Lake Worth Police Department command staff website<\/a>. <\/p>\n Friday morning, Manoushagian posted another statement on X, noting that he will hand off the account to the next Chief of Police after Jan. 30.<\/p>\n In his statement, he thanked the community, his colleagues and his family.<\/p>\n The Lake Worth police Department has not yet announced who the new police chief will be. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lake Worth police chief is retiring from law enforcement, effective Friday, Jan. 30. J.T. Manoushagian, who has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,2091],"class_list":{"0":"post-145509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news","11":"tag-lake-worth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145509","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=145509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}