{"id":6722,"date":"2012-04-16T09:13:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=6722"},"modified":"2012-04-16T09:13:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:13:57","slug":"three-arrested-for-unlicensed-boxing-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/04\/three-arrested-for-unlicensed-boxing-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Arrested For Unlicensed Boxing Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6723\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/MMA-Style.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6723\" title=\"MMA Style\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/MMA-Style.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File Photo MMA Style Boxing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On April 12, 2012, the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office received a report of an unauthorized sporting event held at 1407 Hightower Avenue South, Lehigh Acres in November 2011. The allegations were that several juveniles congregated at the above address for the express reason of engaging in a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)\u00a0event promoted by Angela Harrison, \u00a0Brandon Harrison \u00a0and his stepson, Gauge Ford.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Detectives with the Bravo District Criminal Investigations Division were able to access Facebook accounts\u00a0which included video posts capturing juvenile and young adult males engaging in full head contact fighting. Detectives met with the School Resource Officer at East Lee County High School and were able to identify and speak with some of the individuals in the videos.<\/p>\n<p>Interviews with witnesses revealed that two months prior to the scheduled event, Gauge began recruiting fellow students to engage in the MMA style fights\u00a0at his residence. The participants would wear padded gloves and engage in full contact fighting. On the dates of the scheduled events, participants were paired with an opponent. They engaged in full contact fighting until one of the participants could no longer continue due to their injuries.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0a result of the investigation, it has been established Angela Harrison, Brandon Harrison and Gauge Ford did in fact promote and plan\u00a0the unlicensed MMA event. They were placed under arrest on Friday, April 13, 2012 for violating FSS 548.008, \u201cPromoting or Sponsoring an Unlicensed Boxing Match,\u201d a third degree felony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 12, 2012, the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office received a report of an unauthorized sporting event held at 1407 Hightower Avenue South, Lehigh Acres in November 2011. The allegations&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722"}],"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=6722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}