{"id":156612,"date":"2026-01-30T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156612\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:41:21","slug":"former-cnn-anchor-don-lemon-arrested-by-federal-agents-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156612\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2023-04-24\/don-lemon-cnn-anchor-career-fired\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN anchor Don Lemon<\/a> has been arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, according to an attorney statement posted on Lemon\u2019s social media account Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon was taken into custody Thursday night while covering the upcoming Grammy awards on Sunday, the statement said. He was taken into custody for activities earlier this month in Minnesota, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done. The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power to account,\u201d said the statement from Lemon\u2019s attorney, Abbe Lowell.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon, 59, is being charged with conspiracy to deprive someone of their rights and interfering with someone\u2019s First Amendment right, according to a statement provided to The Times Friday morning from the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>But Lemon\u2019s attorney rejected that claim in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful protesters, the Trump Justice Department is devoting its time, attention and resources to this arrest, and that is the real indictment of wrongdoing in this case,\u201d the statement read. \u201cThis unprecedented attackon the First Amendment and transpent attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration will not stand. Don will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former CNN anchor Don Lemon has been arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, according to an attorney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[76646,8269,76645,9977,2584,5776,24822,48,52,51,76644,47,50,49,4226,3906,22401,3025,315,76647],"class_list":["post-156612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-abbe-lowell","tag-attention","tag-attorney-statement","tag-federal-agent","tag-first-amendment","tag-homeland-security","tag-journalist","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lemon","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-minnesota","tag-month","tag-resource","tag-statement","tag-time","tag-transpent-attempt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}