{"id":7551,"date":"2011-06-13T16:14:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7551"},"modified":"2011-06-13T16:14:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:14:47","slug":"tennessee-titans-wr-kenny-britt-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7551","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Titans WR Kenny Britt Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWARK, N.J.&#8211; Tennessee Titans wide receiver, <strong>Kenny Britt<\/strong> was arrested\u00a0 in New Jersey, a day after appearing in court for a previous arrest on traffic charges.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the former Rutgers star was charged with resisting arrest after two plainclothes officers suspected he was carrying a marijuana cigar and attempted to handcuff him.<\/p>\n<p>The detectives from the city&#8217;s vice squad, were in line to pay at the car wash when they allegedly detected an odor of marijuana, and one officer noticed <strong>Britt <\/strong>allegedly holding a brown, rolled cigar they believed to be the source.<\/p>\n<p>Both detectives identified themselves as police, and attempted to handcuff <strong>Britt<\/strong>, who allegedly tried to wrestle free and push away while attempting to crush the cigar in his fist. Police believe a man who was with <strong>Britt<\/strong> may have disposed of the cigar in the scuffle as police wrestled <strong>Britt<\/strong> to the floor and handcuffed him; the other man has not been charged.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Britt<\/strong> is charged with obstructing the administration of the law, resisting arrest and tampering with or fabricating evidence. Police did not recover the cigar or find any drugs on<strong> Britt<\/strong>, and he has not been charged with any drug-related offenses.<strong> Britt<\/strong> was released on his own recognizance, according to police, and has a June 16 court date.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Britt <\/strong>pleaded guilty Tuesday to separate motor vehicle violations related to an April arrest on speeding charges in his hometown of Bayonne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWARK, N.J.&#8211; Tennessee Titans wide receiver, Kenny Britt was arrested\u00a0 in New Jersey, a day after appearing in court for a previous arrest on traffic charges. Police said the former Rutgers star was charged with resisting arrest after two plainclothes officers suspected he was carrying a marijuana cigar and attempted to handcuff him. The detectives [&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-7551","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\/7551","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=7551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}