{"id":944265,"date":"2026-10-24T08:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944265\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T08:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:04:16","slug":"nascar-agent-who-represents-hamlin-larson-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944265\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Agent Who Represents Hamlin, Larson Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-1tfgmyw emevuu60\">A sports agent who represents several NASCAR drivers vying for this year\u2019s Cup Series championship has been arrested in Mecklenburg County, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-1tfgmyw emevuu60\">Rod Moskowitz, 52, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon on a government employee after allegedly driving his 2023 Toyota Sequioa in an \u201caggressive and reckless manner\u201d in Huntersville, North Carolina, just after noon on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-1tfgmyw emevuu60\">Moskowitz is the CEO of PROSPORT Management and the head of its racing division. PROSPORT\u2019s NASCAR clients include Denny Hamlin, Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, William Byron, and Bubba Wallace.<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"Man with short gray hair and a slight smile against a gray background.\" title=\"Man with short gray hair and a slight smile against a gray background.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/eb5b29b9-7c63-4801-b13c-ecdef8276b25.jpg\" class=\"css-0 e1ddfba50\"\/>Mecklenburg County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>Rod Moskowitz.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"5\" class=\"css-1tfgmyw emevuu60\">The company also represents athletes in the NFL, PGA Tour, LIV Golf, and Major League Soccer.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"6\" class=\"css-1tfgmyw emevuu60\">An affidavit said a Huntersville police officer saw Moskowitz drive into a ditch and get stuck momentarily. He then reportedly backed out of the ditch and pulled into a home\u2019s driveway. The court document said several people, including multiple officers, tried to get Moskowitz to stop. One officer allegedly waved his hands at Moskowitz and had to step out of the way three times to avoid being hit, according to WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina. Officers eventually got Moskowitz out of the vehicle and arrested him.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-1tfgmyw emevuu60\">Moskowitz was taken to the Mecklenburg County jail. In a court appearance Friday, his bond was set at $1,000.<br \/>\n<br data-node-id=\"7.1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-dynamic-svg=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/autoweek\/static\/images\/logos\/lettermark.de67f45.svg?primary=%2523000\" loading=\"lazy\" data-testid=\"dynamic-svg-base\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Lettermark\" class=\"css-1gzwuo6 ev8dhu50\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A North Carolina native, Deb Williams is an award-winning motorsports journalist who is in her fourth decade covering auto racing. In addition to covering the sport for United Press International, she has written motorsports articles for several newspapers, magazines and websites including <a href=\"http:\/\/espnw.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">espnW.com<\/a>, USA Today, and The Charlotte Observer. Her awards include the American Motorsports Media Award of Excellence, two-time National Motorsports Press Association writer of the year, and two-time recipient of the Russ Catlin award. She also has won an award in the North Carolina Press Association\u2019s sports feature category.\u00a0 During her career, Deb has been managing editor of GT Motorsports magazine and was with Winston Cup Scene and NASCAR Winston Cup Scene for 18 years, serving as the publication\u2019s editor for 10 years. In 2024 she was inducted into the NMPA Hall of Fame.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sports agent who represents several NASCAR drivers vying for this year\u2019s Cup Series championship has been arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,782,323283,784,237154,323282,1642,634,323281,273948,82,183339],"class_list":["post-944265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-8d035082-5b17-4b04-aded-d4026b1b2822","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-larson-arrested","tag-locale-us","tag-nascar","tag-shorttitle-nascar-agent-representing-hamlin","tag-sponsored-false","tag-sports","tag-subsection-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944265","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=944265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}