{"id":271692,"date":"2026-04-29T18:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271692\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:47:10","slug":"tarrant-county-drug-bust-follows-routine-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271692\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarrant County Drug Bust Follows Routine Traffic Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What started as a routine traffic stop ends with a big drug bust in Tarrant County.<\/p>\n<p>A Tarrant County deputy pulled someone over along Alta Mere Drive and noticed a few inconsistencies with what the driver told him. So he called in K-9 Racket to help out.<\/p>\n<p>Racket did his thing  and when his sniffer went off, deputies searched the car and found a kilogram of meth, over 140 grams of ecstasy and 15 grams of cocaine. <\/p>\n<p>Officers took DeMarcus Rhodes into custody. Rhodes was charged with two counts of Manufacturing\/Delivering a Controlled Substance between 4 grams and 200 grams and one count of Manufacturing\/Delivering a Controlled Substance of more than 400 grams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What started as a routine traffic stop ends with a big drug bust in Tarrant County. A Tarrant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[95528,150,152,151,294,2531,122,27],"class_list":["post-271692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-all-local","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-crime","tag-illegal-drugs","tag-tarrant-county","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271692","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=271692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}