{"id":8416,"date":"2014-01-15T09:39:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T14:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=8416"},"modified":"2014-01-15T09:39:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T14:39:24","slug":"buccaneers-akeem-spence-arrested-on-drug-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/01\/15\/buccaneers-akeem-spence-arrested-on-drug-chargers\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers Akeem Spence arrested on drug chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8417\" alt=\"akeemspence\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/akeemspence.jpg\" width=\"746\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/akeemspence.jpg 746w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/akeemspence-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/01\/akeemspence-50x30.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Akeem Spence was arrested Tuesday on drug chargers following a traffic stop according to a report from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northescambia.com\/2014\/01\/tampa-bay-bucs-tackle-akeem-spence-busted-on-local-drug-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NorthEscamba.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spence, 22, was found to be in the possession of marijuana after he was stopped by an Alabama state trooper why driving at a speed over 100 mph. He was released on $3,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>The Buccaneers drafted Spence in the fourth round of the 2013 NFL Draft. He signed a four-year deal worth $2,644,424. He spent three years at the University of Illinois before turning pro.<\/p>\n<p>Spence appeared in all 16 games for the Buccaneers this season, starting 14 of them. He finished the season qwith 29 tackles and a sack. He also recovered a fumble in a Week 1 loss to the New York Jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Akeem Spence was arrested Tuesday on drug chargers following a traffic stop according to a report from\u00a0NorthEscamba.com. Spence, 22, was found to be in the possession of marijuana after he was stopped by an Alabama state trooper why driving at a speed over 100 mph. He was released on $3,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[594,216,188],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-8416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-akeem-spence","tag-nfl","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416","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=8416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8416"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}