{"id":20246,"date":"2013-03-25T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20246"},"modified":"2013-03-25T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T20:06:11","slug":"ex-miami-dolphins-player-mark-duper-arrested-for-fighting-and-knocking-out-17-year-old-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20246","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Miami Dolphins Player, Mark Duper, Arrested For Fighting and \u2018Knocking Out\u2019 17-Year-Old Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mark Duper<\/strong>, a former player for the Miami Dolphins, was arrested earlier in the week for attacking his son three times in a day, and now faces a felony abuse charge.<\/p>\n<p>The fights took place at the former NFL player\u2019s Florida home. The one-time wide receiver has since been released from custody, after posting $5,000 bail. <strong>Duper<\/strong> reportedly beat up his 17-year-old son, <strong>Marcus<\/strong>, knocking the teen out twice. While he has admitted to the assault, the 54-year-old claims that it was all done in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a family matter,\u201d <strong>Duper <\/strong>told the Miami Herald. \u201cThis is not an open book. I have to deal with this within my own family.\u201d The argument reportedly stemmed from a text message the youngster sent to his ex-girlfriend. He was punched by <strong>Duper<\/strong> because he \u201cwouldn\u2019t listen about picking up his hat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to police, <strong>Duper<\/strong> picked the boy up and slammed him several times, which led to him losing consciousness. The boy eventually ran outside, crashed his bike at his father\u2019s car, and got punched in the face. He also fell off the bike. \u201cOnce [the victim] went to the ground on his stomach, <strong>Mark<\/strong> climbed on top of [him] grabbed [him] by the neck and began choking,\u201d read the police report.<\/p>\n<p>A sheriff deputy arrested <strong>Duper<\/strong> after seeing the boy\u2019s injuries, which included several scratches, a bump on his forehead, plus a cut and swollen lip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Duper, a former player for the Miami Dolphins, was arrested earlier in the week for attacking his son three times in a day, and now faces a felony abuse charge. The fights took place at the former NFL player\u2019s Florida home. The one-time wide receiver has since been released from custody, after posting $5,000 [&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-20246","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\/20246","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=20246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}