{"id":22757,"date":"2013-04-25T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=22757"},"modified":"2013-04-25T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T17:58:10","slug":"man-arrested-after-allegedly-assaulting-nbc-2-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/04\/man-arrested-after-allegedly-assaulting-nbc-2-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested After Allegedly Assaulting NBC-2 Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22758\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22758\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22758 \" title=\"Jeremiah Edward Mayo\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Jeremiah-Edward-Mayo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"168\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremiah Edward Mayo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lee County Sheriff deputies arrested Jeremiah Edward Mayo Wednesday after they say he threatened two NBC-2 employees with a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Mayo, 23, was arrested on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill, according the report from the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>A NBC-2 reporter and a videographer were in the 1000 block of Fayette Avenue to cover a story about pit bulls stolen from a home during a burglary. The intended subjects of the story were not home, so the staff waited outside in their vehicle for someone to return to the residence.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The NBC-2 employees told deputies they saw two cars that appeared to be going to the residence. A male passenger in one of the cars stared at the reporters in a threatening manner, according to the sheriff\u2019s office report. One of the one NBC-2 employees smiled and waved at the man.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle stopped and the man, later identified as Mayo, jumped out, pulled a handgun from his waistband and pointed it at the reporter.<\/p>\n<p>The NBC-2 employees attempted to back their vehicle out of the driveway, but Mayo continued to approach with the gun pointed at them.<\/p>\n<p>The reporter pointed at their press pass and told him they were with the news.<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t care,\u201d Mayo said, according to the report. \u201cGet the (expletive) out of here, no one\u2019s talking, leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Report said that Mayo said he approached the reporters with the gun at his side, but did not point it at them, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County Sheriff deputies arrested Jeremiah Edward Mayo Wednesday after they say he threatened two NBC-2 employees with a gun. Mayo, 23, was arrested on two counts of aggravated assault&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}