{"id":131718,"date":"2017-10-27T09:43:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T14:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=131718"},"modified":"2017-10-27T09:43:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T14:43:26","slug":"former-wells-co-sheriff-rejects-plea-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=131718","title":{"rendered":"Former Wells Co. Sheriff rejects plea agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-122606\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LawsonJohnny-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LawsonJohnny-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LawsonJohnny-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LawsonJohnny.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>FESSENDEN, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A Southeast District Court judge has rejected a plea agreement for former Wells County Sheriff Johnny Lawson.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson is accused of drug-dealing, bribery and not performing his duties. He faces felony charges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minotdailynews.com\/news\/local-news\/2017\/10\/judge-rejects-plea-in-lawson-case\/\">The Minot Daily News<\/a> reports that Judge Daniel Narum on Thursday rejected an agreement Lawson had reached with prosecutors. Its terms called for Lawson to plead guilty to a misdemeanor drug charge and testify against a drug suspect in a related case. The other charges would be dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Narum said the plea deal &#8220;is inappropriate and doesn&#8217;t serve justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old Lawson abruptly resigned in April, citing personal reasons. He was arrested about a month later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FESSENDEN, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A Southeast District Court judge has rejected a plea agreement for former Wells County Sheriff Johnny Lawson. Lawson is accused of drug-dealing, bribery and not performing his duties. He faces felony charges. The Minot Daily News reports that Judge Daniel Narum on Thursday rejected an agreement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131718","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\/131718","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=131718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131719,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131718\/revisions\/131719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}