{"id":460931,"date":"2026-10-09T07:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460931\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T07:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:10:08","slug":"man-sentenced-for-posing-as-contractor-in-tarrant-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460931\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced for posing as contractor in Tarrant County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791529808_472_breakingphoto.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters\" alt=\"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters<\/p>\n<p>            Star-Telegram illustration\/Ricky Moon photo<\/p>\n<p>A Tarrant County man will spend 30 years in prison after admitting to posing as a contractor to defraud customers, officials with the district attorney\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Jerod Zeno was charged with theft of property valued at $300,000 or more after being accused of stealing money from five victims, according to a statement. Zeno would collect victims\u2019 funds and later withdraw them in cash, which has not been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Zeno had numerous victims and continued operating the scheme even after his initial arrest, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the offenses he committed in Tarrant County, Zeno was on deferred adjudication for a similar crime committed in Hood County, according to the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Get breaking news alerts at star-telegram.com\/newsletters Star-Telegram illustration\/Ricky Moon photo A Tarrant County man will spend 30 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-460931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460931","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=460931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}