{"id":155249,"date":"2025-08-18T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155249\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T08:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:20:17","slug":"sleepy-suspect-busted-with-meth-gun-and-stolen-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155249\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepy suspect busted with meth, gun, and stolen cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\"><strong>LAKE WORTH, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; Lake Worth Police Department night-shift officers found a man asleep in an illegally parked vehicle upon searching the vehicle and finding illegal documents that do not belong to the suspect.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Officers found 42-year-old Matthew Smith asleep in a vehicle illegally parked in a handicap space. As the officers approached the vehicles, in plain view, officers observed a methamphetamine pipe in Smith\u2019s lap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/42yo-matthew-smith-mug.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Smith was detained, and a search of the vehicle revealed a small pistol and 18 pieces of identifying information that included credit cards, debit cards, and checks, none of which belonged to him.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Lake Worth Police say officers contacted several of the rightful owners and confirmed the documents had been stolen during recent vehicle burglaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">Smith was arrested and charged with fraudulent use or possession of identifying information and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. Both of these charges are felonies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this article was provided by the Lake Worth Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/lake-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lake Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-7f0a623e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tarrant County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKE WORTH, Texas &#8211; Lake Worth Police Department night-shift officers found a man asleep in an illegally parked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6082,7371,7372,41192,50,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-155249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-lake-worth","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tarrant-county","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115048797113456223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}