{"id":139481,"date":"2018-02-25T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=139481"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:26:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T03:26:15","slug":"former-wells-co-sheriff-agrees-to-plea-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=139481","title":{"rendered":"Former Wells Co. Sheriff agrees to plea deal"},"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) \u2013 A former North Dakota sheriff who is facing charges for dealing drugs and bribery has agreed to plead guilty to a pair of misdemeanor counts.<\/p>\n<p>The Minot Daily News reports that 42-year-old Johnny Zip Lawson agreed to the deal during a telephonic hearing with District Court Judge Daniel Narum. Narum rejected an earlier plea deal calling for the former Wells County sheriff to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors will drop felony charges of conspiracy to deliver a controlled substance and bribery, and one of three misdemeanor charges, although it\u2019s not clear which one. Those charges are false reports to law enforcement or other security officials, public servant refusing to perform duty and ingesting a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson\u2019s attorney, Peter Welte, did not respond to an email message on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FESSENDEN, N.D. (AP) \u2013 A former North Dakota sheriff who is facing charges for dealing drugs and bribery has agreed to plead guilty to a pair of misdemeanor counts. The Minot Daily News reports that 42-year-old Johnny Zip Lawson agreed to the deal during a telephonic hearing with District Court [&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-139481","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\/139481","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=139481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139482,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139481\/revisions\/139482"}],"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=139481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}