{"id":192614,"date":"2026-03-06T01:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/192614\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:50:07","slug":"game-room-owner-suing-lubbock-county-arrested-on-misdemeanor-charge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/192614\/","title":{"rendered":"Game room owner suing Lubbock County arrested on misdemeanor charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Eric Thompson, a game room owner who is suing Lubbock County, was arrested Thursday on a charge of intentionally and knowingly operating a game room in violation of the Texas Government Code and the Lubbock County Game Room Ordinance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Thompson has since been released. The charge is a Class A misdemeanor, one step below a felony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Court records indicate the investigation into Thompson began in November. An arrest warrant was signed approximately two weeks ago, and Thompson was taken into custody Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Eric Thompson, a game room owner who is suing Lubbock County, was arrested Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[76368,25989,71298,319,1932,66,168,76369,13589,170,169],"class_list":["post-192614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-eric-thompson","tag-game-room","tag-game-rooms","tag-kcbd","tag-lawsuit","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-count-game-room","tag-lubbock-county","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192614","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=192614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}