{"id":19088,"date":"2017-01-09T11:39:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T11:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=19088"},"modified":"2017-01-09T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T11:39:56","slug":"steelers-assistant-joey-porter-arrested-on-multiple-charges-in-bar-incident-after-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/steelers-assistant-joey-porter-arrested-on-multiple-charges-in-bar-incident-after-win.html","title":{"rendered":"Steelers assistant Joey Porter arrested on multiple charges in bar incident after win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"Justify\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Steelers assistant Joey Porter arrested on multiple charges in bar incident after win<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Pittsburgh Steelers assistant coach Joey Porter allegedly assaulted a doorman and was arrested on multiple charges on Sunday night, Pittsburgh police said in a news release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Porter, 39, faces aggravated assault, simple assault, resisting arrest, public drunkenness, and terroristic threats charges after an off-duty officer, who was serving as a security guard at a South Side restaurant, witnessed Porter assault the employee of the nearby bar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Once he arrived on the scene, the officer stopped the assault and arrested (Porter)&#8221; Pittsburgh police said in a statement early Monday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Porter was transported to the Allegheny County Jail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Chris Mueller of The Beaver County Times first reported the arrest in a series of tweets Sunday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Steelers?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Steelers<\/a> assistant coach Joey Porter has been put in the back of a cop car in the south side for an altercation with a police officer<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Mueller (@ByChrisMueller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByChrisMueller\/status\/818285311256096768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The incident occurred outside The Flats bar on East Carson Street <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Steelers?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Steelers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Mueller (@ByChrisMueller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByChrisMueller\/status\/818285525350150144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The police car with Porter in it just left. He was put in handcuffs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Steelers?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Steelers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Mueller (@ByChrisMueller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByChrisMueller\/status\/818285756183625728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The Steelers released the following statement late Sunday night:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u201cWe are aware of an incident tonight involving Joey Porter. We are still gathering information as it pertains to the situation, and we will have no further comments until we get more details.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">A former 13-year NFL veteran who spent eight seasons with Pittsburgh, Porter now coaches the Steelers linebackers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The Steelers defeated the Miami Dolphins on Sunday in an AFC wild-card playoff game and are scheduled to play the Kansas City Chiefs next Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/steelers\/2017\/01\/08\/joey-porter-arrested-pittsburgh\/96332046\/<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/sports\/steelers-assistant-joey-porter-arrested-on-multiple-charges-in-bar-incident-after-win.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steelers assistant Joey Porter arrested on multiple charges in bar incident after win Pittsburgh Steelers assistant coach Joey Porter allegedly assaulted a doorman and was arrested on multiple charges on Sunday night, Pittsburgh police said in a news release. Porter, 39, faces aggravated assault, simple assault, resisting arrest, public drunkenness, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11635,11636,6385,9055,11634],"class_list":["post-19088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-joey-porter","tag-joey-porter-arrested","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-steelers","tag-steelers-assistant-joey-porter-arrested-on-multiple-charges-in-bar-incident-after-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}