{"id":469093,"date":"2023-11-11T16:22:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T20:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=469093"},"modified":"2023-11-11T16:22:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T20:22:06","slug":"new-orleans-wr-thomas-arrested-on-battery-charges","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/new-orleans-wr-thomas-arrested-on-battery-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans WR Thomas arrested on battery charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Saints WR <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/player\/michael-thomas-2\/\">Michael Thomas<\/a> was put behind bars on misdemeanor charges of simple battery and criminal mischief yesterday, the Kenner police announced.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Saints WR Michael Thomas was arrested on misdemeanor charges of simple battery and criminal mischief on Friday, according to Kenner police. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Us3VNf3PwP\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/Us3VNf3PwP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNFL\/status\/1723398521934524909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Saints player was cooperative and booked without incident. Later that day, Thomas was released to go home.<\/p>\n<p>Michael was arrested after an altercation with a man who was doing construction work near where the player lives. The man told the police that the wide receiver confronted him about parking in front of his house and added that he would hurt him.<\/p>\n<p>Michael was also unhappy that the man started filming the Saints wide receiver during the interaction, and the footballer threw a brick at his windshield, which didn\u2019t cause any damage. The man added that the New Orleans player knocked his mobile device out of his hands as he didn\u2019t want to be filmed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Michael Thomas yesterday\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gKgaFTU3Xp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gKgaFTU3Xp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GhettoGronk (@TheGhettoGronk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheGhettoGronk\/status\/1723365761438093746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans Saints WR Michael Thomas was put behind bars on misdemeanor charges of simple battery and criminal mischief yesterday, the Kenner police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":469094,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16920,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[22043,18427,17873],"acf":{"announce":"The Saints wide receiver was arrested on Friday.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469096,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469093\/revisions\/469096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469093"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=469093"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=469093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}