{"id":17584,"date":"2012-10-22T17:09:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17584"},"modified":"2012-10-22T17:09:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:09:15","slug":"man-arrested-for-trying-to-extort-star-hines-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17584","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested For Trying To Extort Star Hines Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a curious case that is still unfolding, a Pittsburgh man was arrested last Thursday on charges he attempted to extort money from former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver<strong> Hines Ward<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joshua Van Auker<\/strong>, 26, got himself on the radar of the Allegheny County district attorney\u2019s office after sending a text message to <strong>Ward\u2019s<\/strong> personal assistant, Raymond Burgess, Jr., with an ominous threat which had aims of ruining the four-time Pro Bowler\u2019s image and reputation.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal complaint written by investigators read that <strong>Van Auker<\/strong> was, \u201calleging that <strong>Ward <\/strong>committed the criminal offense of paying women for s-x, and thereby exposing<strong> Ward <\/strong>to ridicule or contempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a curious case that is still unfolding, a Pittsburgh man was arrested last Thursday on charges he attempted to extort money from former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward. Joshua Van Auker, 26, got himself on the radar of the Allegheny County district attorney\u2019s office after sending a text message to Ward\u2019s personal assistant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}