{"id":5774,"date":"2026-10-10T07:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T12:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/10\/north-texas-contractor-gets-30-years-for-theft\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T07:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T12:29:17","slug":"north-texas-contractor-gets-30-years-for-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/10\/north-texas-contractor-gets-30-years-for-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas Contractor Gets 30 Years for Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FqYH-bCgkuRU%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"North Texas contractor sentenced to 30 years for theft\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qYH-bCgkuRU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> FORT WORTH, TX \u2013 October 10, 2026 (STL.News) Texas Contractor \u2013 Theft \u2013 A North Texas contractor was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to theft of property valued at more than $300,000, according to FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth. Jeremy Jerod Zeno received the sentence Friday, October 9, in Tarrant County, after an investigation into complaints that he accepted substantial payments for construction and renovation projects he never completed. The investigation began in 2024 when a customer contacted the Benbrook Police Department after paying approximately $40,000 for a renovation project that barely progressed. Additional customers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/north-texas-contractor-gets-30-years-for-theft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT WORTH, TX \u2013 October 10, 2026 (STL.News) Texas Contractor \u2013 Theft \u2013 A North Texas contractor was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to theft of property valued at more than $300,000, according to FOX 4&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5776,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5774\/revisions\/5776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}