{"id":1977,"date":"2013-12-05T20:45:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2013-12-05T20:45:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T01:45:48","slug":"pair-of-nc-state-players-face-drug-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/12\/05\/pair-of-nc-state-players-face-drug-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair of NC State players face drug charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1978\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1978\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/12\/shadrachthornton.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/12\/shadrachthornton.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/12\/shadrachthornton-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/12\/shadrachthornton-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A pair of NC State players face misdemeanor drug chargers after police visited their apartment as part of a sexual battery investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore running back Shadrach Thornton and redshirt freshman safety J.J. Jones <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/10085763\/nc-state-shadrach-thornton-jj-jones-face-drug-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">were cited<\/a> on Wednesday with misdemeanor simple possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. In a probable cause affidavit for a search warrant, authorities said they were following up on the sexual battery case and named Thornton as the suspect of it.<\/p>\n<p>Thonton had already been suspended for the rest of the year by head coach Dave Doeren while Jones is in the process of transferring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NC State Athletics Department takes any allegation of illegal activity very seriously,&#8221; the school said in a released statement. &#8220;We have university and athletic policies and procedures in place regarding our expectations of conduct for our students. &#8230; We will await the outcome of the legal process before we comment further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thornton was the Wolfpack&#8217;s leading rusher with 768 yards this season and is currently receiving counseling for his offseason charge of misdemeanor assault on a female.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of NC State players face misdemeanor drug chargers after police visited their apartment as part of a sexual battery investigation. Sophomore running back Shadrach Thornton and redshirt freshman safety J.J. Jones were cited on Wednesday with misdemeanor simple possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. In a probable cause affidavit for a search warrant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[134,161],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-1977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaafb-news","8":"tag-ncaafb","9":"tag-shadrach-thornton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}