{"id":280306,"date":"2026-05-05T21:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/280306\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:35:06","slug":"lubbock-police-warn-of-scam-targeting-residents-with-fake-court-citations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/280306\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock police warn of scam targeting residents with fake court citations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock Police Department is warning residents about a scam involving fake citations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The scam involves sending emails and text messages about citations while pretending to be the City of Lubbock\u2019s Municipal Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LPD reminds residents that the municipal court does not send text messages or emails trying to get people to pay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say do not click on the links.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Residents with questions about a possible citation can call the court directly at 806-775-2473.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock Police Department is warning residents about a scam involving fake citations. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[994,319,66,1739,168,170,169,523,3605,103359,223,5793,30779],"class_list":["post-280306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-city-of-lubbock","tag-kcbd","tag-local","tag-lpd","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-police","tag-lubbock-police-department","tag-lubbocks-municipal-court","tag-news","tag-scam","tag-scam-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280306","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=280306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}