{"id":300619,"date":"2026-05-20T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/300619\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:31:07","slug":"lubbock-firefighter-in-jail-on-2-counts-of-falsifying-birth-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/300619\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock firefighter in jail on 2 counts of falsifying birth certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock firefighter has been placed on administrative leave after being booked into the Lubbock County Detention Center on two charges of false record for\/on a birth\/death certificate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lubbock Fire Rescue Firefighter Jonathan Forkner was arrested on Tuesday, according to a statement released by LFR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Forkner has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lubbock Fire Rescue said it takes alleged criminal conduct by its employees seriously and holds all personnel to the highest standard of conduct, both on and off duty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department said any actions inconsistent with its mission and values will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A Lubbock firefighter has been placed on administrative leave after being booked into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2911,9310,43330,11770,251,168,170,169],"class_list":["post-300619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-arrested","tag-breaking","tag-firefighter","tag-lfr","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300619","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=300619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}