{"id":808163,"date":"2026-07-17T16:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808163\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:10:11","slug":"craig-melvin-and-al-roker-granted-restraining-order-against-today-intruder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/808163\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Melvin and Al Roker Granted Restraining Order Against ‘Today’ Intruder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig Melvin and Al Roker
\n Stay The Hell Away From Us, ‘Today’ Intruder!!!<\/p>\n

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\n July 17, 2026
\n 6:55 AM PDT
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\n Updated
\n July 17, 2026
\n 8:19 AM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Craig Melvin<\/a> and Al Roker<\/a> are not taking any chances after Thursday’s alarming incident at the “Today” show studio … because they’re getting court-ordered protection against alleged intruder Andrew Truelove<\/a> … TMZ has learned.<\/p>\n

Truelove’s attorney, Lawrence Gerzog, tells TMZ … the judge issued a protective order requiring Truelove to stay away from Al and Craig.<\/p>\n

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TMZ broke the story … Truelove was asking for\u00a0Al after somehow slipping past security, and when he couldn’t find Al, he turned his attention to Craig, confronting him in a restricted area and allegedly lunging at him while yelling the n-word.<\/p>\n

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Law enforcement tells TMZ … Truelove can’t go near the two men at NBC or their homes — which for the moment is moot because he’s still behind bars on $20,000 bail. He’s currently being held at Rikers Island as he faces a bunch of hate crime charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Craig addressed the incident<\/a> on Friday’s broadcast, saying he’s thankful the guy was arrested and no one was injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Melvin and Al Roker Stay The Hell Away From Us, ‘Today’ Intruder!!! Published July 17, 2026 6:55…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-808163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}