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ARLINGTON, Texas<\/strong> – Two men are behind bars after being caught running a jugging operation<\/a> at multiple Tarrant County banks, police say.\u00a0<\/p>\n One Fort Worth officer found an abandoned puppy mid-operation, which he adopted after the arrests.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tarrant County jugging arrests <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n The incident happened Monday when two suspects, later identified as Courtland Smith-Montgomery and Geremy Brown, were reported as possibly casing a Wells Fargo Bank in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n The men were followed to a second Wells Fargo in the city, again sitting outside without entering.\u00a0<\/p>\n The monitoring continued to a Navy Federal Credit Union in Arlington, from which Fort Worth PD says the suspects followed a victim to a nearby Walmart. At that point, they were seen taking withdrawn cash from the victim’s car.\u00a0<\/p>\n The suspects were arrested soon after, and the money was returned to the victim, FWPD said.\u00a0<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n The release from FWPD does not include the charges the suspects face. Jugging is now a felony in Texas<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Fort Worth officer adopts puppy mid-investigation <\/p>\n In the same release, Fort Worth PD said one of their officers found a puppy abandoned in a crate at a gas station during the operation.\u00a0<\/p>\n He kept the puppy with him, and officially adopted it after the arrests.\u00a0<\/p>\n What Is Jugging?<\/strong> <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Jugging is defined as the act of following a victim from a commercial business or financial institution, commonly a bank or ATM, for the purpose of robbing them at a secondary location.\u00a0<\/p>\n House Bill 1902<\/a>, newly signed into law by Abbott, recognizes the act as a state-jail felony, with the possibility of being enhanced to a third or even first-degree felony if other penal code standards are met.<\/p>\n Jugging has now been added to Texas\u2019 robbery offenses, and\u00a0carries penalties<\/a> of 180 days in jail and up to $10,000 in fines for a state-jail felony, to life in prison for a first-degree felony.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this article comes from the Fort Worth Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n Arlington<\/a>Fort Worth<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtland Smith-Montgomery and Geremy Brown ARLINGTON, Texas – Two men are behind bars after being caught running…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":307056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7948,6082,7371,7372,50,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-307055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arlington","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","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\/115381780305246930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307055","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=307055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/g3vb0kswaaahb2b.jpg\")
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