{"id":126806,"date":"2026-05-28T05:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/05\/28\/headdress-eligibility-for-sheriff-position-questioned-complaint-filed-in-district-court-20260528-1810-075209\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2028-11-13T12:10:09","slug":"headdress-eligibility-for-sheriff-position-questioned-complaint-filed-in-district-court-20260528-1810-075209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/05\/28\/headdress-eligibility-for-sheriff-position-questioned-complaint-filed-in-district-court-20260528-1810-075209\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Headdress\u2019 Eligibility For Sheriff Position  Questioned, Complaint Filed In District Court"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the two candidates seeking  the position of Roosevelt County  sheriff may not be eligible to hold the office, according to information gathered by the Northern Plains Independent.<br \/>\n\t  Wesley Headdress\u2019 qualifications for holding the office is in question because he was convicted of felony  theft in Fort Peck tribal court in 2020. Because there are only two candidates for county sheriff, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126806"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=126806"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=126806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}