QUINCY \u2014 Former Quincy University kicker Conor McAneney, who transferred to Florida State University following the fall semester, finds himself in a legal predicament following an arrest early Thursday morning in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.<\/p>\n
According to multiple media reports and Broward County jail records, McAneney is facing charges of battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence and trespassing following his arrest at 2:30 a.m. Thursday near the beach.<\/p>\n
The first two charges are third-degree felonies.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile FLPD officers were attempting to detain McAneney, he became uncooperative and violent. He was arrested and charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting with violence and trespassing,\u201d the Fort Lauderdale Police Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n
A statement released by the Florida State athletic department said McAneney has been indefinitely suspended from all team activities.<\/p>\n
A native of Northern Ireland, McAneney was one of three international kickers\/punters QU had on the roster last fall. Primarily a field goal specialist and kickoff specialist as a true freshman, McAneney made 7 of 10 field goals with a long of 45 yards. He was 4 of 4 on extra points.<\/p>\n
McAneney was named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Special Teams Player of the Week following the Hawks\u2019 34-33 overtime victory at William Jewell when he kicked fourth-quarter field goals of 44 and 45 yards and converted his first three PATs of the season.<\/p>\n
McAneney also handled kickoff duties for the Hawks, knocking 16 of his 49 kicks for touchbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUINCY \u2014 Former Quincy University kicker Conor McAneney, who transferred to Florida State University following the fall semester,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1422,249,251,250,61173],"class_list":["post-199236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-florida-state-university","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-quincy-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}