{"id":191288,"date":"2025-12-19T06:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/191288\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T06:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:15:14","slug":"samson-nacua-arrested-released-over-alleged-theft-of-lakers-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/191288\/","title":{"rendered":"Samson Nacua arrested, released over alleged theft of Laker’s car"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brother of Los Angeles Rams<\/a> star Puka Nacua<\/a> was one of two men arrested over the weekend for allegedly stealing a vehicle that reportedly belonged to Lakers<\/a> forward Adou Thiero<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The men arrested Saturday by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department are Trey Rose, 27, and Samson Nacua<\/a>, also 27 and the brother of the Pro Bowl wide receiver.<\/p>\n

The vehicle is a newer-model BMW that NBC4 Los Angeles reported belonged to Thiero.<\/p>\n

In a release, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said its deputies were able to track the vehicle to the 8400 block of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood.<\/p>\n

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The two men were arrested Saturday afternoon for allegedly taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent and released that night, according to information from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department jail logs.<\/p>\n

Rose and Samson Nacua were released under California Penal Code Section 849(b), meaning there were insufficient grounds to file a complaint. It wasn’t immediately clear if either man was being represented by an attorney.<\/p>\n

The sheriff’s department said an investigation is ongoing and offered no further comment.<\/p>\n

Samson Nacua, who played collegiately at Utah<\/a> and BYU<\/a> and spent time in training camp with the Indianapolis Colts<\/a> and New Orleans Saints<\/a>, was suspended for one game by the UFL in April for slapping a fan during an altercation following a loss. As part of that punishment, he also agreed to participate in community service.<\/p>\n

Puka Nacua made headlines this week when he said on a livestream that he thinks some NFL referees make calls just to get shown on TV during games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brother of Los Angeles Rams star Puka Nacua was one of two men arrested over the weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-191288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}