{"id":162769,"date":"2023-02-03T23:34:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T04:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=162769"},"modified":"2023-02-03T23:39:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T04:39:08","slug":"briggs-resigns-as-spencerville-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/02\/03\/briggs-resigns-as-spencerville-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Briggs resigns as Spencerville mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SPENCERVILLE &#8212; Spencerville Mayor Phillip Briggs has turned in his resignation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Phillip-Briggs-2-1-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162682\"\/><figcaption>Phillip Briggs<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Briggs, 45, resigned on Thursday, three days after his arrest on a charge of pandering obscenity involving a minor, a second degree felony. He\u2019s accused of secretly recording two teenage girls in various states of undress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was arrested after interviewing with Allen County Sheriff\u2019s detectives and after deputies executed a search warrant at his home and on a laptop computer. The Spencerville Police Department requested that the Sheriff&#8217;s Office handle the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDue to the charges alleged against Mayor Phillip Briggs, village council requested his resignation,\u201d a statement from council said. \u201cMayor Briggs obliged that request and resigned as mayor for the village of Spencerville as of Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council President Darrell Pugin has assumed the duties of mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Briggs remains in the Allen County Jail in lieu of $200,000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff SPENCERVILLE &#8212; Spencerville Mayor Phillip Briggs has turned in his resignation. Briggs, 45, resigned on Thursday, three days after his arrest on a charge of pandering obscenity involving a minor, a second degree felony. He\u2019s accused of secretly recording two teenage girls in various states of undress. He was arrested after interviewing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-05 15:47:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162775,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162769\/revisions\/162775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}