{"id":434084,"date":"2026-01-24T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434084\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T08:44:07","slug":"packers-walker-arrested-at-la-guardia-airport-on-gun-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434084\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers&#8217; Walker arrested at La Guardia Airport on gun charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"06cd3bcf-7a86-53d4-28e7-aa049dd36261\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/gb\/green-bay-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Bay Packers<\/a> offensive lineman <a data-player-guid=\"a2900084-6b30-1120-e194-23a1829b7960\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4361429\/rasheed-walker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rasheed Walker<\/a> was arrested Friday morning at LaGuardia Airport in New York after he tried to check in a bag that contained a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Walker, 25, was taken into custody and charged with two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a firearm, according to the New York Post. He appeared in Queens County Criminal Court on the gun charge and was released later Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Post, citing a criminal complaint, Walker told an airline employee that his bag contained a locked box holding a handgun. Port Authority Police, after being alerted by the employee, searched Walker&#8217;s bag and found a 9mm Glock pistol along with 36 rounds of ammo in the locked box.<\/p>\n<p>Walker&#8217;s attorney, Arthur Aidala, told the Post that the gun was legally licensed in Wisconsin and that Walker didn&#8217;t know he couldn&#8217;t travel with it in New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are confident the matter will be resolved favorably,&#8221; Aidala told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Walker, a seventh-round draft pick of the Packers in 2022, is due back in court March 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Rasheed Walker was arrested Friday morning at LaGuardia Airport in New York after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-434084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434084","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=434084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}