{"id":342,"date":"2012-10-14T11:04:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T15:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=342"},"modified":"2012-10-14T11:12:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T15:12:15","slug":"steelers-rookie-alameda-tamu-arrested-for-drunk-driving-fleeing-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2012\/10\/14\/steelers-rookie-alameda-tamu-arrested-for-drunk-driving-fleeing-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers rookie Alameda Ta&#8217;amu arrested for drunk driving, fleeing scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/taamu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-345\" title=\"taamu\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/taamu-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/taamu-300x257.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2012\/10\/taamu.jpg 721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Pittsburgh Steelers rookie NT Alameda Ta&#8217;amu was arrested early Sunday morning for drunken driving. Ta&#8217;mu reportedly crashed into several vehicles before attemping to flee the scene.<\/p>\n<p>NBC Sports reports that Ta&#8217;amu is facing felony counts of fleeing from the police, aggravated assault while driving drunk and ten misdemeanors including resisting arrest, attempting escape and failure to obey traffic laws.<\/p>\n<p>Should the NFL take action the Steelers will not miss the play of Ta&#8217;amu as the fourth round pick out of Washington has yet to appear in a game.<\/p>\n<p>Ta&#8217;amu arrived to Steelers training camp out of shape. He was encouraged to get in shape. Veterans on the team asked him to get some snacks from Wal-Mart, which they told him was a mile away. Ta&#8217;mu noticed that the walk to Wal-Mart was three miles after consulting his phone on the walk and also injured his foot.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police report a hearing has been scheduled for October 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Steelers rookie NT Alameda Ta&#8217;amu was arrested early Sunday morning for drunken driving. Ta&#8217;mu reportedly crashed into several vehicles before attemping to flee the scene. NBC Sports reports that Ta&#8217;amu is facing felony counts of fleeing from the police, aggravated assault while driving drunk and ten misdemeanors including resisting arrest, attempting escape and failure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[67],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-alameda-taamu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}