{"id":1126,"date":"2026-05-12T19:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2026-05-12T22:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:52:36","slug":"tdcj-officer-arrested-for-delivery-offering-to-deliver-dangerous-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/tdcj-officer-arrested-for-delivery-offering-to-deliver-dangerous-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"TDCJ Officer Arrested for Delivery \/ Offering to Deliver Dangerous Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Staff Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huntsville, Texas &#8211; Effray Straughter Jr., age 59, was arrested by the Texas Board of Criminal Justice\u2019s Office of Inspector General Monday for allegedly Delivery \/ Offering to Deliver Dangerous Drugs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Effray was employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on March 13, 2024 and according to public records was a Correctional Officer IV with an annual salary of $61,695.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Effray was booked into the Walker County Jail and was released today on a $5,000 bond by Walker County Justice of the Peace Steve Fisher.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TDCJ\u2019s public information officer refused to make any comment regarding the arrest of their officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All suspects are innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Staff Writer Huntsville, Texas &#8211; Effray Straughter Jr., age 59, was arrested by the Texas Board of Criminal Justice\u2019s Office of Inspector General Monday for allegedly Delivery \/ Offering to Deliver Dangerous Drugs.&nbsp; Effray was employed by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on March 13, 2024 and according to public records was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}