{"id":124377,"date":"2017-06-30T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T21:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=124377"},"modified":"2017-06-30T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T21:46:35","slug":"lamoure-police-chief-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=124377","title":{"rendered":"Update:  LaMoure Police Chief charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WatsonJames.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-124397\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WatsonJames-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WatsonJames-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WatsonJames-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/WatsonJames.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A police chief in a southeastern North Dakota town is charged with sex crimes in three southwestern counties, including allegations he had sex with a minor under the age of 15.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Fifty-two-year-old James Watson is the chief of the LaMoure Police Department. He was charged Friday in Stark, Hettinger and Golden Valley counties. The charges date back to 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Watson faces single charges of continuous sexual abuse of a child in both Stark and Golden Valley counties. Those complaints say Watson engaged in sexual contact or sexual acts on at least a weekly basis.<\/p>\n<p>Watson is charged in Hettinger County with three counts of gross sexual imposition.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents do not list a lawyer for Watson, who is jailed in Jamestown. A court hearing has not been scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Previously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LaMoure \u2014\u00a0 According to a report Thursday evening on WDAY TV, LaMoure\u00a0Police Chief\u00a0 53 year old James G. Watson is being held in the Stutsman County Correctional Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau of Criminal Investigation\u00a0\u00a0made the arrest\u00a0Thursday\u00a0evening, possibly in western North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities would only\u00a0\u00a0say the charge against\u00a0him is gross sexual imposition.<\/p>\n<p>More information is expected\u00a0\u00a0when the formal criminal complaint is released on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A police chief in a southeastern North Dakota town is charged with sex crimes in three southwestern counties, including allegations he had sex with a minor under the age of 15. Fifty-two-year-old James Watson is the chief of the LaMoure Police Department. He was charged Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124377"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124468,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124377\/revisions\/124468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}