{"id":336497,"date":"2025-12-09T05:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336497\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T05:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:38:11","slug":"man-charged-over-alleged-threats-sent-to-afl-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336497\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged over alleged threats sent to AFL star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged over allegedly threatening messages sent to AFL star Izak Rankine.<\/p>\n<p>The Adelaide Crows star received five threatening messages on social media on September 8, police allege.<\/p>\n<p>Rankine reported the matter to police, who spent months investigating the allegations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/8f7240f8-ba6a-4001-afcf-e748a412a733.jpeg\"   alt=\"Izak Rankine of the Crows.\"\/>Izak Rankine of the Crows. (Getty)<\/p>\n<p>Cybercrime detectives arrested a 31-year-old man yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The man, from Kensington Gardens in Adelaide&#8217;s east, was charged with using a carriage service in an offensive manner.<\/p>\n<p>He has been bailed to appear in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on January 30.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffThe messages were allegedly sent four days after the Crows lost to Collingwood in this year&#8217;s qualifying final.<\/p>\n<p>The star forward received a four-match suspension as a result of the incident, ruling him out of the Crows&#8217; finals campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged over allegedly threatening messages sent to AFL star Izak Rankine. The Adelaide Crows&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-336497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}